Quotes

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann von Goethe


We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
- Harold Bloom
US author, critic, educator, & scholar (1930 - )

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Cynthia Ozick



Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
- Cynthia Ozick


To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
- Cynthia Ozick


To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
- Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

- Stephen Hawking

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
- Stephen Hawking