“Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
“Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)
“Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?”
Richard Adams book The Plague Dogs
Source: The Plague Dogs (1977)
“The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
"On Elementary Instruction in Physiology" (1877) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/ElPhys.html <br class="br">1870s <br class="br">Context: The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
"Robertson Davies" [by Paul Soles]
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
Context: Well, I haven't got wealth or fame, but I really think I might say, and I know how dangerous it is to say this — I think I have happiness. And happiness, you know, so many people when they talk about happiness, seem to think that it is a constant state of near lunacy, that you're always hopping about like a fairy in a cartoon strip, and being noisily and obstreperously happy. I don't think that is it at all. Happiness is a certain degree of calm, a certain degree of having your feet rooted firmly in the ground, of being aware that however miserable things are at the moment that they're probably not going to be so bad after awhile, or possibly they may be going very well now, but you must keep your head because they're not going to be so good later. Happiness is a very deep and dispersed state. It's not a kind of excitement.
“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter