Eleanor Roosevelt

“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!

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“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)

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

– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (a former president of Liberia)

“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

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”

– Edith Sitwell (a British poet and critic)