Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Thomas Carlyle · The source reads: “As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it, speech is of time, silence is of eternity.” · Sartor Resartus, bk. III, ch. 3

Genius, which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Thomas Carlyle

The true University of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

Thomas Carlyle

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Lamb

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

“Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”

“Genius, which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.”

“The true University of these days is a collection of books.”

“The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Genius, which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

The true University of these days is a collection of books.

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.