Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

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Frank Herbert, Dune

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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Mae West

I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.

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Margaret Atwood

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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Epicurus

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

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Maya Lin

To fly we have to have resistance.

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Sir Walter Besant

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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