John > John's Quotes

“The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.”
― Victor Villasenor, Burro Genius: A Memoir

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858

“gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance, giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.”
― theodore parker

“Everything gives way to money, and money gives way to nothing, neither to man nor to God.”
― Theodore Parker

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”
― Theodore Parker

“To make one half the human race consume its energies in the functions of housekeeper, wife and mother is a monstrous waste of the most precious material God ever made.”
― Theodore Parker

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
― Theodore Parker