Quote of the Day for 2016-06-08

"Be careful what you swallow. Chew!"

— Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Commencement address at Buena Vista University. Quoted in Time magazine (June 12, 1995)

Aimee Semple McPherson (left) leading a service during the annual Four Square Gospel Church Convention at the Angelus Temple in Echo Park (1942) Photo source: Los Angeles Examiner

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-24

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."

— Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Journal entry, "Cambridge, July 1842"

Portrait of a young man representing the nativist ideal of the Know Nothing party (1854)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-22

"Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom. … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth."

— Peter Abelard (1079-1142) Sic et Non, Prologue (1120)

Abelard and his Pupil Heloise by Edmund Leighton (1882)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-17

"It is in human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion."

— Anatole France (1844-1924) "Le Petit Bonhomme," La Nouvelle Revue (1883) Le Livre de Mon Ami (1885)

Blill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky at a Democratic Party fundraising event in Washington, D.C. (October 23, 1996) Photograph by Dirck Halstead

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-04

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

— Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Quoted by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, May 28, 1810

No. 2 in a series of Beethoven engravings (1931-1938) by Michel Katzaroff (1891-1953), sold not just as prints, but also as postcards.