“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.”
Hedley Bull (1932–1985) Australian academic
Source: The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
Context: For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
“You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.”
Justina Chen (1968) American writer
Source: North of Beautiful
“There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”
Agatha Christie book Sad Cypress
Source: Sad Cypress
“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”
Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
“I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 11
Essais (1595), Book III
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles
Variant: There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
"A meeting of minds", The Guardian, 18 November 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusicandopera.thomasstearnseliot <br class="br">Attributed
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Dragon Bones
“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
Thomas Merton book No Man Is an Island
Source: No Man Is an Island
