Quotations Set 32

1. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. - Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )

2. How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. - Sophocles, (495-405 BCE)

3. The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. - Archibald MacLeish, poet and librarian (1892-1982)

4. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. - Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )

5. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

6. The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. - Pearl S. Buck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1892-1973)

7. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

8. The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. - Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)

9. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. - Emily Carr, artist and writer (1871-1945)

10. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

11. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. - Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

12. Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. - Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )

13. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read. - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

14. The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. - Lord Acton, historian (1834-1902)

15. Religion--freedom--vengeance--what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill. - Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)

16. A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. - Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

17. One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. - Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948)

18. Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. - Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

19. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. - E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

20. Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. - Arnold Toynbee, historian (1889-1975)

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