Aristotle

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)

“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”

– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”

Truely a quote from the ancient Greek poet of Iliad and Odyssey fame but easily could have been from Homer Simpson!

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (a former president of Liberia)

“Never eat more than you can lift”

– Porcine star of stage and screen