Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Hypatia
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Émile Zola
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing has really happened until it has been described.