“But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.”
Source: The Seven Dials Mystery
“It's hard to ignore ignorance, as we wear our brainy hat of hatred. Where the hammer hits the nail, indirectly.”
“I can even work with my enemies. Because I know from experience that they might have a change of heart any minute!-Septima Clark”
Source: The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
“A man arrives in a car, and with his hands, grabs the lions and kicks and punches them, and they turn into butterflies flying in the air. ... The man was silent, unable to speak. Eating the butterflies from the animals he fought.”
Source: Tomiétrèla
“Here are the skies, the planets seven,
And all the starry train:
Content you with the mimic heaven,
And on the earth remain.
(Additional Poems, V)”
Source: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
“Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.”
Source: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
“I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.”
“But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts...
Try not to notice these jolts.
'It is no good meeting trouble halfway.”
Source: You Can't Be Too Careful
“Thou has't all the symptoms of hubris but, alas, remaineth unw'rthy of the condition.”
“We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God