Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.Horace
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.Epictetus
I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.Tom Stoppard
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!Richard Feynman
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.Napoleon Bonaparte
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates
As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.Chuck Palahniuk
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.Richard Dawkins
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.Plato
