Quotes

I have much admiration for the insightful words of others. You will find those quotations placed throughout this collection.  Scattered amongst some of those great thoughts which have influenced me are some of my own bearing LFV as the 

attribution.

“...for things to remain as they are,
                         everything must change”

Loosely taken from The Leopard [pub. 1958]
Italian novelist - Giuseppe di Lampedusa – 1896 - 1957

 

“A proverb is a short sentence…
                     based on long experience”

Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616  

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood -- and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”

Daniel Hudson Burnham,
American architect, 1846 – 1912

 

“It is character that uses intellect as its servant and makes a man bad or good, weak or great”

Will Durant, American historian and philosopher 1885 – 1981 

“A critical thinker is one who
        puts their long-held beliefs in harm’s way”

 LFV

 

                               On the shore of Narraganset Bay, R.I.

 

“Life is not about deserving anything
            but rather about surviving everything”

LFV 

“All too frequently,
     those in charge of creating vision, have none.”

LFV

 

“A person who works with his hands is a laborer, a person who works with their hands and their brain is a craftsman but a person who works with their hands and their brain and their heart – is an artist”

Louis Nizer, American lawyer – 1902-94

“Love without passion is dreary,
                         passion without love is horrific”

Abraham Cowley, English poet – 1618 – 1667

 

“Life can only be understood backwards;
                            but it must be lived forwards”

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, social critic – 1813 – 1855 

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding”

Albert Camus, Algerian born French philosopher – 1913 – 1960