"Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Inspirational Quotes #Humble Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.”
“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.”
“There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.”
“The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.”
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70
“I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.”
“For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.”

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