“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky     “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky     “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky       “What…

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” ― Galileo Galilei     “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” ― Galileo Galilei     “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” ― Galileo Galilei       “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” ― Galileo Galilei     “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is…

“Patience is a conquering virtue.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “people can die of mere imagination” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “If gold rusts, what then can iron do?” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “No empty handed man can lure a bird” ― Geoffrey Chaucer     “The life so brief, the…