"Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!"

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Horace Walpole

#Ignorance Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.”

Source : FaceBook post by K.Hari Kumar from Dec 20, 2013
“One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.”
“I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“BE GRATEFUL EVEN for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.”

Source : "The Art of Peace". Book by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.
“The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.”
“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
“Strength is gained in the range it is trained.”

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