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Quotes: An Assortment! |
“A scholar knows no boredom.”
Jean Paul Richter, German
author, in Hesperus, 1795.
“Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with
your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose
them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”
Carl Schurz, American statesman and reformer, Faneuil Hall,
Boston, 1859.
“ Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as…from
lack of bread.”
Richard Wright, author,
in Native Son, 1940.
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
Rabindranath Tagore,
Bengali poet, novelist, and educator, in Stray Birds, 1916.
“Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and
his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else.”
Victor Borge, pianist
and humorist, in The London Times, January 3, 1984.
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
James Thurber, humorist and author.
“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience…from
generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory
of a nation.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, in his Nobel Prize
lecture, 1972.
