_Quotes

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

Az in guš mi-girad, az ân guš dar mi-konad. Translation: In at one ear and out at the other. English equivalent: Advice most needed are the least heeded. Meaning: "For various reasons a good advice or a genuine warning is often disregarded or considered of no importance." Source for meaning and proverb: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). European Proverbs in 55 languages. DeProverbio.com. p. 179. ISBN 1-875943-44-7. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Persian_proverbs

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days. - John Brown, Barbarossa (1754), Act V, Scene 3. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Affliction

Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, . . . thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth—a time when we didn’t know fear. . . . Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914. - Konrad Adenauer, Cleveland West Parker, January 20, 1966, p. 1. Quoted in the article How We Know We Live in the “Last Days”, in The Watchtower magazine, April 1, 1967. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1914

The coming extinction of art is prefigured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events. - Theodor Adorno in Minima Moralia (1951), as translated by E. Jephcott (1974), § 94, p. 143 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Art

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Quotes·Quotations by Edgar Allan Poe

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - Sir J. Lubbock [The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation]