Curated Wisdom

Quotes

Discover handpicked quotes from public authors, carefully selected to inspire and enlighten.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Jorge Luis Borges

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Alan Turing

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges

Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Margaret Thatcher

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Henry Miller

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt