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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors read more
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope read more
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. read more
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we read more
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
