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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235, Joseph Farrell
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. Carl Sandburg
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
literature wonder puzzled
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
literature guidance enough
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
contempt joyce letters people throughout virginia writers
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Michel Faber
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
contempt control feeling hatred neither quite within
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
contempt father grew opinions speech
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
contempt deal gone longer obviously penalty phase serious strike work
If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.
contempt word writer wrote
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
contempt department job learned running saw students worst younger
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
contempt economic environmental good interests prevail science sign ultimately
When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man. Pope John
contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke