Thoughtful Thursday

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!"
- William Shakespeare

"If you are able to state a problem, it can be solved."
- Edwin H. Land

"I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election."
- Walt Whitman

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
- Louis Brandeis

"Advice is like snow --- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember."
- John Mason Brown