The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Carl Rowen
The lessons taught in great books are mi…
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Anita Brookner
The lesson which life repeats and consta…
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Burroughs
The less their ability, the more their c…
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ahad HaAm
The longer I live, the more I am certain…
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination–a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
The longer I live the more beautiful lif…
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live the more I see that I …
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
Quote, saying and phrase by: George Bernard Shaw
The loneliest woman in the world is a wo…
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
Quote, saying and phrase by: George Santayana
The living need charity more than the de…
The living need charity more than the dead.
Quote, saying and phrase by: George Arnold
The living is a species of the dead and …
The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche