Erudimus Quotes

#1. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

Bernie Sanders

#3. That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.

Colin Powell

#4. Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Jean Cocteau

#5. When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward ... I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

Johnny Hunt

#6. I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#7. Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.

Frederick Lenz

#8. It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)

Wynne McLaughlin

#9. The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Theodor Adorno