Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists., John Kenneth Galbraith, US (Canadianborn) administrator economist (1908 )
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twentyfive I was wise, self confident, prepossessing and assertive. At fortyfive I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?, Jules Feiffer, US cartoonist satirist (1929 )
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted., Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, German philosopher (1724 1804)
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance., Graham Clarke,
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities., George Eliot, English novelist (1819 1880)
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love., Mother Teresa, Indian humanitarian missionary (1910 1997)