“Truth and beauty … yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer.”
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880–1949) Swedish poet
Source: The Second Light (1986), p. 133
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“Truth and beauty … yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer.”
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880–1949) Swedish poet
Source: The Second Light (1986), p. 133
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class
“A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 6
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
名不正,则言不顺
Paraphrased as a chinese proverb stating "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."
Source: The Analects of Confucius
Source: The Analects, Chapter XIII