"That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!"

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Source : Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1971). “Ultima Thule”

Henry Handel Richardson

#Children Quotes #Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes

“It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.”
“I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.”
“Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.”
“With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.”

Source : "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.
“I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.”
“Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.”
“Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories arenâ€™t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, Iâ€™d light a match.”
“The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.”

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