Eli > Eli's Quotes

“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic