“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 64 of 303
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.”
“No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.”
“Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.”
“Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.”
“Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.”
“The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.”
“It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet”
“Not praising the deserving prevents envy.”
“A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
“If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.”
“Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.”
“I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys”
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
“Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.”
“Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.”
“Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.”
“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”
“Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.”
“I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.”