Write hard and clear about what hurts.
—Ernest Hemingway (via penseesduchoeur)
(Source: seabois, via somethingchanged)
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.
—Plato (via humanformat)
(Source: vanished, via elsiemarina)
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
—Helen Keller, The Open Door (via serialstranger)
Successful scientists have often been people with wide interests. Their originality may have derived from their diverse knowledge … Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected.
Therefore reading ought not to be confined to the problem under investigation nor even to one’s own field of science, nor, indeed, to science alone.
—W. I. B. Beveridge,
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
—Stephen R. Covey (via ohmoomers)
(via elsiemarina)
