"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?"
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Source: Le catéchisme social by Honore de Balzac, Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, (p. 137), 1933.
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