Today's Words of Wisdom - August 9, 2015

The following people celebrate a birthday today:

John Dryden (1631 – 1700):

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,

But good men starve for want of impudence.”

and

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

and

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980):

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”

and

“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”

P.L. Travers (1899 – 1996):

“Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.”

and

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985):

“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”

and

“What will survive of us is love.”

and

“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”

Daniel Keyes (1927 – 2014):

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

and

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about."

and

“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”