“Productive people guard their time more heavily than the gold in Fort Knox.”
Robert W. Bly (1957) American writer
101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress (1999)
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“Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 74
Blüthenstaub (1798)
“There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,
Than from theyr children to spare the rod.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) English poet
Magnificence, A goodly interlude, line 1954 (published c. 1533), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: He that spareth the rod hateth his son, Proverbs xiii. 24; They spare the rod and spoyl the child, Ralph Venning, Mysteries and Revelations (second ed.), p. 5. 1649; Spare the rod and spoil the child, Samuel Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. i. l. 843.
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Henry David Thoreau book Civil Disobedience
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.”
Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire
Source: The Throne of Fire
“I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.”
William Faulkner book Absalom, Absalom!
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
“You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.”
Tamora Pierce book Street Magic
Source: Street Magic
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
“I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.”
Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer
“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
The Book of Delusions (1936)