Quotes by British Authors - Page 771

The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.
Anthony Horowitz
Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to
Graham Austin-King
You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.
Steven Magee
Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
Idries Shah
Before big bridges, deep tunnels and the advent of health and safety regulations, there were many ways to cross rivers. They would use rowing boats, rickety rafts or in the absence of a vessel, swim or wade. Everyone knew what a stepping-stone was. They all understood that it was not something that you would want to stand on for any length of time. It was a means to an end, an important point and a route from A to B.
Johnathan Cainer
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.
Alexander McCall Smith
You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom.
Colin Tegerdine
...you have to be godly to be wise ...
Derek Kidner
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Charles Dickens
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.
Charles Kingsley
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Noël Coward
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J.B.S. Haldane
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…
Jane Austen
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
George Orwell
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.
Tahir Shah
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In science, mistakes always precede the truth.
Horace Walpole
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
G.K. Chesterton
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.
Tahir Shah
Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing.
Belsebuub
There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.
Belsebuub
SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
Idries Shah
It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.
Idries Shah
If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
Idries Shah
The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.
Idries Shah
Haste is from the Devil.
Idries Shah
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T.S Eliot
...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.
Gertrude Bell
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
C.S. Lewis
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
C.P. Snow
... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.
Daisy Goodwin
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
Simon Van Booy
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
T.S Eliot
Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.
Terry Pratchett
Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We can't just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown.
Belsebuub
Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
George Orwell
Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
T.H. White
one should never assume anything
Dick Francis
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
C.S. Lewis
If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.
C.S. Lewis
One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...
Idries Shah
Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.
Idries Shah
One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.
Joseph Conrad
A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
Idries Shah
For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
J.R.R. Tolkien
If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah”)
William Beckford
You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
Carole Wilkinson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
Samuel Johnson
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.
John Keats
There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit
Benny Bellamacina
It's only hard until it becomes easy.
David A. Smith