"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Inspiring Quotes #Education Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
“There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.”
“You are everything good and straight and fine and trueâ€”and I see that so clearly now, in the way youâ€™ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. Youâ€™ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. Thatâ€™s one thing Iâ€™ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.”
“Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.”
“The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.”
“There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.”
“Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.”
“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

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