Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

- Harold B. Melchart

"What will they think of me?" must be put aside for bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

- John Stuart Mill

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

- Andre Gide

No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

- Oscar Wilde

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll.
The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

- Oscar Wilde

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

- Deborah Tannen

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

- Tony Robbins

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

- John Ruskin

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

- Rudolf Arnheim

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

- Katherine Anne Porter

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

- Alexis Carrel

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down.

- Christopher Morley

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

- Maria Mitchell

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

- Anne Frank

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

- Helen Keller

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

- Rachel Carson

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes