Words to Contemplate

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
- Edmund Burke

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
-Herman Melville

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
-Robertson Davies

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
-Aldous Huxley

The visionary denies the truth to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.
-Mason Cooley