"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Inspirational Quotes #Education Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.”
“I leave these speculations to others. Itâ€™s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesnâ€™t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.”

Source : "Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast". Interview with Dean Brierly, photographyinterviews.blogspot.com. April 22, 2009.
“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
“Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.”
“O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!”
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”
“We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention”

Source : Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). “The Mind of Oswald”, p.164, Trafford on Demand Pub

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