Location: Jakarta Quote: We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. [Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu]
Location: Jakarta Quote: Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. [Andre Gide]
Location: Jakarta Quote: Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. [Edward Albee]
Location: Fatahillah Museum, Jakarta Quote: Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. [Unknown]
Location: Jakarta Quote: Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. [Benjamin Franklin]
Location: Fatahillah Museum, Jakarta Quote: The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. [Thomas Edison]
Location: Underground Woman Jail, Jakarta Quote: Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. [Swedish Proverb]
Location: Old Town, Jakarta Quote: Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. [Martin H. Fischer]
Location: Fatahillah Museum, Jakarta Quote: Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. [George R. Kirkpatrick]
Location: Green Canyon, West Java Quote: One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. [Odell Shepherd]
Location: Batu Karas, West Java Quote: Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. [Tad Williams]