“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
– Edith Sitwell (a British poet and critic)
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
– Indira Gandhi (the former prime minister of India)
“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)
“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.”