quotes of day Tuesday, September 8, 2026

“Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.”

“I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.”

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

“Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.”

“We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”

“Smile if you want a smile from another face.”

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”

“If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?”

“Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.”

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.”

“What is the universal?The single case.What is the particular?Millions of cases.”

“I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”

“In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.”