Harriet Beecher Stowe on ideas

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don’t doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men’s.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo1802–1885