"To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend."

-- Robert Dodsley

#Philosophy Quotes #Learning Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.”
“However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.”
“[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.”
“Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.”

Source : Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.9, Pan
“Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)”
“I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.”

Source : "Flavor Flav heads back to high school" by James Hibberd, www.reuters.com. October 1, 2009.
“I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.”
“Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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