"Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time."

-- Mark Tobey

#Humanity Quotes #Understanding Quotes #World Quotes

“Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.”
“All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.”
“I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken.”
“Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks”
“It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.”

Source : Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag
“Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.”
“I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me.”
“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”

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