"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau
“The man who lies to himself cannot distinguish the truth within him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
Alexandre Dumas
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
