"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

Hugo, Victor | Thoughts and Thinking | 2 bookmarks

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) | Courage | 8 bookmarks

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."

Johnson, Samuel | Curiosity | 2 bookmarks

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor | Compliments | 4 bookmarks

"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor | Cries and Crying | 2 bookmarks

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas | Curiosity | 3 bookmarks

"Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas | Curiosity | 2 bookmarks

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."

Proverb, Japanese | Vision | 3 bookmarks

"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind."

Wordsworth, William | Reverie | 3 bookmarks

"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Progress | 3 bookmarks