Words by wise men and women

“People want to keep you in the box they've given you. It's a tribal consciousness. Stay in your class. Stay in your country. Because if you move you're trouble. But the fact is, that volatile molecule is the one that transforms everything for the better. So I think it's always worth doing.”
— Gordon Sumner

“Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
— Ozarks saying

“The content of one's speech can tell the king from the beggar in the kingdom of noble behavior.”
— Angeliki Kanavou

“I remember students who used to study words and memorize them not for their pleasure or nobler utility, but for their role in getting a higher score on standardized tests. That seemed to me a misuse of the English language: ripping out a word from its nurturing home in a careful book and throwing it stripped and alone onto a street corner box where it's displayed by its charlatan pimp as chattel with smeared lipstick.”
— Scott Schudy

“It's never too late to take the exam.”
— Jichen He

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
— Mark Twain

“It is very difficult to persuade the great body of mankind to give up what they have once learned, and are now masters of, for something to be learned anew. Time alone insensibly wears down old habits, and produces small changes at long intervals, and to this process we must all accommodate ourselves, and be content to follow those who will not follow us.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“Finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sage nicht immer, was du weisst, aber wisse immer was du sagst.”
— Matthias Claudius