Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
Graham GreeneRead
A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
Interpretation
Our understanding and imagination are limited by our experiences.
This quote by Graham Greene suggests that the human mind can only conceive ideas and possibilities that are rooted in personal experiences. It emphasizes the importance of experiences in shaping our thoughts, creativity, and understanding of the world, implying that without experiencing something, our mind cannot imagine it or comprehend it fully.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams, this quote can remind the audience of the importance of real-life experiences.
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Live as if you were living already for the second time.
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
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