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Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Jnana
- Knowledge
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
Richard Bachborn 1936Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bonoborn 1960PENN Address (2004)
- Change
Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Speech at Brown University (1995)
- Advice
We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
- Writing
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus⁠—it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Book I, Chapter VIII
- Truth & Lies
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
- Sleep
Every man and every woman is a star.
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Book of the Law (1904), I:3
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl1916–1990The Minpins (1991)
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Pilote de Guerre (1942) (translated into English as Flight to Arras)
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Diana, Princess of Wales1961–1997The Guardian, December 9, 1995, p. 2
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 1In context
- Genius
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character