Facts Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J.K. Rowling

“Let us consider letters - how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J. K. Rowling

“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish…

— Victor Hugo

“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the glad tidings,…

— Victor Hugo

“I intone the words with perfunctory detachment, my mind raging dully against the Papyrus font in which they are projected onto the wall.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door. There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to…

— Terry Pratchett

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

— H. P. Blavatsky