Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Goethe

Thank you for your criticism of me

A monkey on a tree hurled a coconut and the head of a Sufi.
The man picked it up, drank the milk, at the flesh, and made a bowl from the shell.

Anthony De Mello in "The Song of the Bird" page 163

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Carl Jung