New format for the quotes: quotes above the break and my thoughts about them after.
- Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. --Edward Gibbon
- Little minds are interestd in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. --Elbert Hubbard
- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwatned are the most terrible poverty. --Mother Theresa
- In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are always consequences. --Robert G. Ingersoll
- What you see, yet cannot see over, is as good as infinite. --Thomas Carlyle
- I suppose when you are Edward Gibbon, the conversation you can have with yourself are more enlightening that just about another other discussion. Still, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire isn't perfect - maybe a few more conversations might have helped?
- Hmm...another quote about what makes great thinkers. First, who did 19-year-old Katie think she was? This is a lot of self-congratulatory quotes. Secondly, while Ed Gibbon was amazing and Hubbard was apparently impressive enough to be quoted, I don't know that either are really qualified to be authorities as to what constitutes genius or great minds. This quote, I believe, draws a false distinction between the extraordinary and the commonplace.
- Bless you, Mother Theresa. That quote is less annoying than it would have been coming from someone who didn't actually know terrible, physical poverty. And this quote was both underlined and starred in my planner.
- I am a big believer in natural consequences, and this quote probably was recorded because it supported my opinion instead of engendering it.
- There are horizons everywhere. There's this big, beautiful world, and there are no end to the amazing things in it.
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