"Wisdom drips, but dries into dust if we do not drink it."

I started a fun tradition a while back of looking up intelligent thinkers' quotes. But for the last six months, they have just been sitting useless in my Gmail inbox, since I emailed them to myself to save them. I don't want to throw them away, because I love them, but they can't stay (Ah!).
So, now that I'm realizing the usefulness of a blog as a virtual trash can, I have decided to move some of them here. Viola!

ERNEST HEMMINGWAY:

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Man is not made for defeat.

Never confuse movement with action.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.