Quotes and Sayings

"If you want to quote like a leader, note like a leader (read wisely & take notes)"
--Dr. David C Alves, Illustrations of Dr. David C Alves (2007).

Ability to count / kinds of people / criticism

"There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and those who can’t”
--Capt. Connor

Art & Literature

Chief Function of Art and Literature (Empathy)

The chief function of art, of literature, is what Lewis calls the primary literary experience. This is an experience we have in reading literature of any kind and under ideal circumstances; it is what Lewis defines as “good reading.” It is an experience in which we are permitted, invited or compelled to participate by the work itself.
--Glover, C. S. Lewis: The Art of Enchantment, p. 45.

Eyes / Insight - [2 Cor. 5.16]

This life's dim windows of the soul
Distort the heavens from pole to pole,
And lead you to believe a lie.
When you see with
And not through the eye.
--William Blake

Knowledge

“assumption is the lowest form of knowledge”

Kingdom

“There’s little love for the Kingdom, because there’s little love for the King”
--Andrew Murray.

Solitude

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. —James Russell Lowell, Among My Books Inc Merriam-Webster, The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations., "A Merriam-Webster." "Quotables from Notables"
--Cover.; Includes Index. (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1992), 394.

Vision / perspective

German philosopher told of a passerby watching 3 stone-masons.
He asked the 1st: "What are you doing?"
            He answered: "Chipping stone."
            He asked the 2nd mason: "What are you doing?"
            He answered: "Building a wall."
            He posed the ques. to 3rd: "What are you doing?"
            He replied: "I'm building a cathedral."

Character

"We are facing a test that will establish our chacter . . . "
--Andrew Jackson

WORD ORIGINS & EVOLUTION

"The word "computer" does not mean today what it meant in 1957."

--Uncle Roy IBM; U. Mass.