It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. —GK Chesterton


It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —Oscar Wilde



Education is the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. —GK Chesterton


My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine. —Ernest Hemingway


Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. —Oscar Wilde


"He should have been a great philosopher...but he had made an unfortunate marriage." Virginia Woolf



I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. —GK Chesteron



To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. —Marilyn Vos Savant



Change is something that happens every moment without our input. -David March



When someone once asked Diogenes why he often laughed by himself, he said, "For that very reason."

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —Oscar Wilde

The purpose of all education is to spare people time and error. 

- Alain de Botton

@alaindebotton

The internet to this generation of writers as alcohol was to previous ones: anxiety suppressant, enemy of talent, challenge.  - Alain de Botton