#thou

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ↗

— Epictetus

#foolish #improve #stupid #thought #want

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. ↗

— Epictetus

#does #master #most #regard #though

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#been #centuries #christian #fervently #hatred

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#am #artist #get #hits #promoted

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. ↗

— Otis Rush

#around #day #every #every day #first

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. ↗

— John Ruskin

#love #minds #most #purest #those

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effort #great #great person #great thing #only

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#development #earth #had #increased #knowledge