Quotes on Miscellaneous

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.