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Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Carl Sagan1 quote
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders, undreamt of in our time, will we have wrought in another generation? — Carl Sagan · 1994Dante Alighieri1 quote
O human race, born to fly upward,
Wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? — Dante Alighieri · 1321Elbert Hubbard1 quote
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard · 1911Emily Dickinson1 quote
We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies. — Emily Dickinson · 1886Heraclitus1 quote
Everyone has the potential for self-knowledge and sound thinking. — HeraclitusHermann Hesse1 quote
But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us. — Hermann Hesse · 1910Lord Byron1 quote
How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be! — Lord Byron · 1824Lorenzo (A Bronx Tale)1 quote
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. — Lorenzo (A Bronx Tale) · 1993William Blake1 quote
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793William James1 quote
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. — William James · 1906William Shakespeare1 quote
We know what we are but know not what we may be. — William Shakespeare · 1616