No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. – Henry Van Dyke Category: Thinking
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers Category: Thinking
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Fear
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris Category: Election Day