Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: learning intelligence curiosity certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. —Walt Disney More about this quote Tags: future ideas curiousity progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. —Alfred Whitney Griswold More about this quote Tags: history ideas censorship quality books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. —Howard H. Aiken More about this quote Tags: ideas vision innovation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: life fear peace risk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: judgement risk danger safety chance cowardice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: future conservation humility resources law ownership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me — ever. —Jim Morrison More about this quote Tags: wonder potential fame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. —Jim Morrison More about this quote Tags: feeling poetry perception limits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. —H. G. Wells More about this quote Tags: mistakes space perspective catastrophes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells More about this quote Tags: potential future past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.' —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: commonality loneliness stories Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. —John Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent More about this quote Tags: commonality people knowledge relationship assumptions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one wants advice, only corroboration. —John Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent More about this quote Tags: advice corroboration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: words writing meaning accuracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email