Health, Humor, Academia, Age Quotations

HEALTH
Seneca
It is a part of the cure to wish to be cured.

HUMOR
Jean Paul Richter
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

ACADEMIA
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education.

AGE
Leo Rosenberg
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

Metaphysics, Academia, Problems, Conversation

METAPHYSICS
Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

ACADEMIA
John C. Maxwell
The problem with most educational institutions is that they try to teach people what to think, not how to think.

PROBLEMS
Phillip C. McGraw
… while the pain of dealing with your problems is an acute, easy-to-identify pain, the pain of avoiding them is also profound, even if more subtle.

CONVERSATION
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Service

PHILOSOPHY

John Robert Fowles
An answer is always a form of death.

ACADEMIA

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

STAGNATION

Lowell Fillmore
When we hear somebody complaining that he has not enough, we may know that he has not expressed enough appreciation for what he already has.

SERVICE

Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Love

Philosophy

Anonymous
For the good man to realize that it is better to be whole than good is to enter on a straight and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license.

Academia

Leo Botstein
At most, college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Stagnation

Robert Allen
... the vast bulk of humanity isn’t nice. They aren’t even really nasty, they’re just a heap of disorganized appetites that are struggling to be satisfied. It’s not hard to see why some of our writers and philosophers have found humanity a pretty dismal prospect.

Love

Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy – and that is life.