“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”
Source: Last Sacrifice
“People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.”
Pt. 2, ch. 12
Calpurnia
Variant: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.”
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
Letter to James Hessey (October 9, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: I have written independently without Judgment. I may write independently, and with Judgment, hereafter. The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself — That which is creative must create itself — In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a, silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 98
Source: How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday
“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.”
