“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 332.
“I had loved so infrequently I felt a debt to those whom I had, for the reprieve from solitude.”
Michael Nava (1954) American writer
Source: Henry Rios series of novels, How Town (1990), p.198
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158
Context: Whence came you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips — lo, they are yours and not mine. I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. Now, sympathising with the paper, my angel turns over another leaf. You did not care a penny for the book. But, now and then as you read, you understood the pervading thought that impelled the book — and that you praised. Was it not so? You were archangel enough to praise the imperfect body, and embrace the soul.
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
Of God and Men, p. 125
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) American physicist
Julius Sumner Miller, in What Science Teaching Needs, Junior college journal, volume 38 (1967), by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University.
Context: My view is this: We teach nothing. We do not teach physics nor do we teach students. (I take physics merely as an example.) What is the same thing: No one is taught anything! Here lies the folly of this business. We try to teach somebody nothing. This is a sorry endeavour for no one can be taught a thing.
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. To my own teachers who handled me in this way, I owe a great and lasting debt.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 46-47.