Dynamics
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. (Rabindranath Tagore)
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. (Bertrand Russell)
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. (Charles Dudley Warner)
There is a tragedy in perfection, because the universe in which perfection arises is itself imperfect. (George Santayana)
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable Perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. (Logan Pearsall)
When we get sick, we want an uncommon doctor. If we have a construction job, we want an uncommon engineer. When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man. (Herbert Hoover)
Every age confutes old errors and begets new. (Thomas Fuller)
Style is the perfection of a point of view. (Richard Eberhart)
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base. (Jean Anouilh)
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)
He is lifeless that is faultless. (English Proverb)
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. (Samuel Butler)
Faults shared are comfortable as bedroom slippers and as easy to slip into. (Phyllis McGinley)