If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
~Michelangelo
Category Archives: Quotes
New Prospects
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
~Nikola Tesla
Glorious Rain
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Disappointment
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
~Alexander Pope
Silence
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
~Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Fleeting Beautiful Life
It is horrible that I have to find out about the passing of an ex-classmate via social media, but I guess that is how news travel nowadays.
Rest in peace, Helen. I shall always remember you as the friendly, smart and pretty classmate of 1984.
For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia’s arms
and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments.
~ Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
Insincerity
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
~ George Orwell, Politics and the English Language