Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create"
Standing Alone quotes
Standing Alone
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
Aeschylus
Playwright
"Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom."
Kristin Hannah
Author
"Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said."
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