humanity
Simplify
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
— Henry David Thoreau
Idioms
Two heads are better than one. — English proverb
Zwei dumme, ein gedanke. — German proverb
Being Wrong
Being wrong isn’t a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.
— Richard Feynman
Continue
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston S. Churchill
Crossing the Ocean
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
— Andrè Gide
Doors of Perception
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
— William Blake
Infinity
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
— Norman Cousins
Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What we do
We become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.
— Aristotle
'Stupid' Questions
So one should be unafraid to ask “stupid” questions, challenging conventional wisdom on a subject; the answers to these questions will occasionally lead to a surprising conclusion, but more often will simply tell you why the conventional wisdom is there in the first place, which is well worth knowing.
— Terry Tao