
“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.”
"History of India" at Amazing World http://www.amworld.info/india-travel/history-of-india
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.”
"History of India" at Amazing World http://www.amworld.info/india-travel/history-of-india
Source: Entweder / Oder
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”
History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 598.
“With my usual sublime self-confidence, I rode roughshod over the objections.”
In The New Yorker, April 15, 1967
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Context: Communication technologies are necessary, but not sufficient, for us humans to get along with each other. This is why we still have many disputes and conflicts in the world. Technology tools help us to gather and disseminate information, but we also need qualities like tolerance and compassion to achieve greater understanding between peoples and nations.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history — the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation…