 The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| These glorious things - words - are man's right alone. Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves. Author: Charles Kingsley |
| Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. Author: Charles Kingsley |
| By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
| The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason. Thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be the monarch of a little world? command thyself. Author: Francis Quarles |
| Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
