Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all…

“Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it…

— Alvin Toffler

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena…

— Salman Rushdie

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite…

— John Ray

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet…

— Matthew Arnold

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“...deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good…

— Julian of Norwich

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price…

— Anonymous

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most…

— James S. Coleman

Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as…

— Anne Frank

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up…

— Alan Moore

I have a cosmetics line in Walgreens. It's exclusively at Walgreens. It's called Circa and it's basically prestige cosmetics that are at drug-store prices.

— Eva Mendes

In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue…

— Dana Goldstein

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and…

— Jean Vanier

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of…

— Claude Levi-Strauss