One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. – Epictetus Category: Perfection
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. – Goethe Category: Perfection
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle Category: Perfection
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Leacock Category: Intelligence
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. – Marshall McLuhan Category: Conformity & Nonconformity
Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. – Rumi Category: Rumi
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Category: Passion
