–William Somerset Maugham
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Experience
579 – “Science, like the Mississippi, begins in a tiny rivulet in the distant forest. Gradually other streams swell its volume. And the roaring river that bursts the dikes is formed from countless sources.”
–Abraham Flexner
575 – “I really know how to take care of myself, how to be alone, how to deal with stress. If I hadn’t been through that time, I wouldn’t have got there. I never knew I had limits. You make good friends and you make bad friends, and you have to figure it all out. You realize you can’t do everything. I really did think I could do it all …. You can’t do by the way. You do have to take breaks.”
–Emma Watson
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530 – “There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.”
–Emma Goldman
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523 – “I don’t get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open.”
–Leah Burke in Becky Albertalli’s Leah on the Offbeat
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495 – “To a little mind nothing is great, to a great mind, nothing is little.”
–anonymous
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482 – “Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”
“Τόν γε σοφώτατον οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεται σύμβουλον ἀναμείνας χρόνον.” [See Translation Note]
–Pericles [See Source Note]
