“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
- Isaac Asimov
Awareness
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
- Isaac Asimov
Awareness
"Isaac Asimov: “You’ve got to learn to laugh at yourself. If you don’t, someone else will do it for you, and you won’t enjoy it nearly as much.”"
- Isaac Asimov
Self-awareness
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Isaac Asimov
Courage
"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov
Courage
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity