“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures Category: Self-Discovery
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. – George Wald, “The Origin of Optical Activity,” Annals of the New York Academy of Category: Self-Discovery
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond Category: Self-Discovery
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha Category: Self-Discovery
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. – Jean de la Fontaine Category: Passion
He was just trying to tease me – I knew that later – but he said hed have to leave because it wasnt fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really. – Fay Wray Category: Humor
