Empedocles De Agrigento Quotes

#1. Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

#2. Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. the only thing you'll find at the summit of mount everest is a divine view, the things that really matter lie far below it

Peak

#5. What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven