“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 110 of 303
“He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.”
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
“When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.”
“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
“Introspection is always retrospection”
“When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”
“Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.”
“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.”
“Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.”
“A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.”
“Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.”
“Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.”
“Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.”
“Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.”
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?”
“People do not want advice - they want corroboration.”
“I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.”
“A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.”