Stilgoe Harvard Quotes & Sayings

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images. — Beth Henley

Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler? — Gregory Maguire

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. — Jonathan Gottschall

In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor. — Richard Benjamin

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century. — Carl Honore

The ambiance of solitude, the absence of any disturbing noise and of worldly desires and images, the quiet and calm attention of the mind to God, helped by prayer and leisurely reading, flow into that "quies" or "rest" of the soul in God. A simple and joyful rest, full of God, that leads the monk to feel, in some way, the beauty of eternal life. — Carthusian Monks

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape. — Oriana Fallaci

Religion can be anything! But true Christianity is God coming to man in a personal relationship. — Billy Graham

Anyone who is not in love with the life itself can never find real happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God. — Soren Kierkegaard