"Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss."

-- Friedrich Schiller

#Death Quotes #Wise Quotes #Daughter Quotes

“What the thinker thinks, the prover proves”
“According to your medical checkup, you are dead.”
“You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.”
“LIFE: My favorite occupation.”
“Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.”

Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan
“The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.”
“A hand fought best when it made a fist.”
“You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.”

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