It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
Quotes
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Quotation Monday #79: Knowledge
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Quotation Monday #78: Lies
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
― Winston Churchill
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Quotation Monday #77: Nothing on?
“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
― Marilyn Monroe
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Quotation Monday #76: Belief
“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon
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Quotation Monday #75: First week of August
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
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Quotation Monday #74: Books and summertime
“Come with me,’ Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
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Quotation Monday #73: Summer
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Quotation Monday #72: Summer afternoon
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James
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Quotation Monday #71: Sunshine
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby