“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
“You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?”
Graham Greene book Monsignor Quixote
On a priest who pantomimes Mass, Monsignor Quixote, PBS TV (February 13, 1987)
“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”
Agatha Christie book Hallowe'en Party
Source: Hallowe'en Party
Henry Tizard (1885–1959) British chemist
Undated attributed quote
George Gilder (1939) technology writer
Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (2000), p. 31
Context: Let there be light, says the Bible. All the firmaments of technology, all our computers and networks, are built with light, and of light, and for light, to hasten its spread around the world. Light glows on the telescom's periphery; it shines as its core; it illuminates its webs and its links. From Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein to Richard Feynman and Charles Townes, the more men have gazed at light, the more it turns out to be a phenomenon utterly different from anything else. And yet everything else — every atom and every molecula — is fraught with its oscillating intensity.
“Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Stanza 1
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)