Quotes

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
Charlie Munger


It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling


In short, a PhD is a ticket to a life of research and exploration, a life of learning for learning’s sake, and a life of sharing the joy of discovery with like-minded people.
Matthias Felleisen


The man truly conversant with life knows, against all appearances, that there is a remedy for every wrong, and that every wall is a gate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The real violence, the violence I realized was unforgivable, is the violence that we do to ourselves, when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.
Nomi Marks, from Sense8


Everyone dies alone. But if you meant something to someone, if you helped someone, or loved someone, if even a single person remembers you, then maybe you never really die.
The Machine, from the Person of Interest


All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J.R.R. Tolkien