Quotes April 30, 2020

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard,
physiologist
 
 
 
 
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges,
writer, essayist, poet, translator
 
 
 
 
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
Beatrix Potter,
writer, illustrator
 
 
 
 
I have a rendezvous with Life.
Countee Cullen,
writer, poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
The truth is … everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say.
Countee Cullen,
writer, poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.
Buddy Guy,
blues guitarist, singer
 
 
 
 
One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination.
Lorrie Moore,
writer
 
 
 
 
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire,
writer, public activist, philosopher
 
 
 
 
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete.
Henry James,
writer
 
 
 
 
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham,
dancer, choreographer, pioneer of modern dance
 
 
 
 
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
Arthur Conan Doyle,
writer who created the detective Sherlock Holmes
 
 
 
 
The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it.
Halle Berry,
actress
 
 
 
 
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Samuel Johnson,
writer