Latest Quotes

“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen

“For you, a thousand times over.”

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts, The Culture Of Counter-Culture

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo h…”

— Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please…”

— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel u…”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.”

— J.R. Rim, Write Like No One Is Reading

“Sometimes I provoke you just to see you do new faces.”

— Mike Young, Keystroke Your Face

“I hate that phrase 'the real world.' Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?”

— Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

“University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”

— Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game) (Volume 1)

“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force i…”

— John Henry Newman, The Idea of A University (Notre Dame Series in the Great Books)

“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”

— Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status”

— Criss Jami, Healology

“Make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.”

— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir

“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!: (Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)