“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:ignorance

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“I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“That's the thing about a human life—there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“He needed to bask himself in that smile . . . in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“The chief one was to remember that camping was a good way to find out people’s characters. Those who were selfish showed it very soon, in that they wanted the best bed or the best food and did not want to do their share of the work.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.”

― William Shakespeare, King John

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