Quotes:

Some random quotes to ponder

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
   -Joyce Carol Oates

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones.
   -Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
   -Publilius Syrus

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
   -Cyril Connolly

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
   -Cicero