“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."
 
-- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Quantity has a quality all its own."

--  Josef Stalin, talking about Soviet tank production in WW2

"Past experience, to the extent that it is a part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present."

--  JK Galbraith A Short History of Financial Euphoria

"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information."

-- T.S. Eliot

"The boldest measures are the safest."

--  Horatio Nelson

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm."

--  Winston Churchill

"I am still confused, but on a higher level."

-- Goethe, on reading Hegel's Metaphysics

"There is never occasion to write down what everybody knows,  But what everybody knows is soon forgotten."

-- Legal Historian S.F.C. Milsom

"Be curious, not judgmental."

-- Walt Whitman

"Experience: the most brutal of teachers.  But you learn, my God do you learn."

-- C.S. Lewis

"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

-- George Orwell