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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
November 29, 2025
Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
November 28, 2025
The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful.
Ayn Rand
November 27, 2025
A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Robert Heinlein
November 26, 2025
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
November 25, 2025
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert Heinlein
November 24, 2025
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
John Muir
November 23, 2025
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Thomas Szasz
November 22, 2025
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
November 21, 2025
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone Weil
November 20, 2025
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