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Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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John Dalberg Acton: Guard against the...

John Dalberg Acton: Guard against the...

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement;...

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John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the...

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John Dalberg Acton: There is no...

John Dalberg Acton: There is no...

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

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Sallust: No man underestimates...

Sallust: No man underestimates...

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

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James Harvey Robinson: We are incredibly...

James Harvey Robinson: We are incredibly...

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them...

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James Harvey Robinson: Most of our...

James Harvey Robinson: Most of our...

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already...

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James Harvey Robinson: Partisanship is our...

James Harvey Robinson: Partisanship is our...

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on...

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A J P Taylor: The greatest problem...

A J P Taylor: The greatest problem...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Source:...

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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Max Eastman: A liberal mind...

Max Eastman: A liberal mind...

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Source:...

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Jerome K Jerome: Mere bald fabrication...

Jerome K Jerome: Mere bald fabrication...

Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro [fisherman] can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail,...

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Ishmael Reed: No one says...

Ishmael Reed: No one says...

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news,...

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Elias Canetti: The process of...

Elias Canetti: The process of...

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single...

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Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with...

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Aesop: Example is the...

Aesop: Example is the...

Example is the best precept.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aesop: Little by little...

Aesop: Little by little...

Little by little does the trick.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Whatever a man...

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Whatever a man...

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Source: Contribution, Saturday...

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