"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Knowledge Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Might Quotes

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.”
“Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.”

Source : Chris Cannon (2014). “Going Down in Flames”, p.36, Macmillan
“It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God”
“I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.”
“The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.”
“I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Source : Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.603, Simon and Schuster
“As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.”

Source : Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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