You create your opportunities by asking for them.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with read more

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how read more

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high read more

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far read more

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly read more

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.