“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
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Bertrand Russell562
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“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
“There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Argument on the murder of Captain White (1830)
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
Alastair Reynolds (1966) British novelist and astronomer
Death’s Door (p. 229)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)
“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
Source: Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946), p. 186-7
“To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
A ceux qui ont épuisé la politique, il ne reste plus que la pensée pure.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 11