Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mikhail Lomonosov: Nature
“Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.” —Mikhail Lomonosov.
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G K Chesterton: Absurd modern attempt
“I do not deny that women have been wronged and even tortured; but I doubt if they were ever tortured as much as they are tortured now by the absurd modern attempt to make them domestic empresses and competitive clerks at the same time.” —G K Chesterton.
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Aja Raden: More devastating
“Apparently the only thing more devastating to your brain than thinking you can’t have something is the knowledge that someone else can.” —Aja Raden.
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C S Lewis: Reward
“If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Skeptics and skepticism
“It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favor of skepticism.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Fixed rule
“We must never forget one fact, which we tend to forget nevertheless: that a fixed rule is the only protection of ordinary humanity against clever men — who are the natural enemies of humanity.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Before there was a printing press
“Between newspaper stunts and newspaper suppressions on the one side, and dictatorships with their censorships on the other, it is highly probable that our immediate posterity will know less about what is going on than they did before there was a printing press.” —G K Chesterton.
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James Branch Cabell: Temptation resisted
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.” —James Branch Cabell.
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G K Chesterton: Temptation
“Yielding to a temptation is like yielding to a blackmailer: you pay to be free, and find yourself the more enslaved.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Landslide
“All human institutions slide downwards like a landslide, unless they are perpetually forced upwards by criticism and reform.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Better to disappoint
“It’s better to disappoint with the truth than appease with a lie.” —Simon Sinek.
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Soichiro Honda: Raise the sail with your stronger hand
“There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes ‘Raise the sail with your stronger hand’, meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.” —Soichiro Honda.
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James Humes: Auditioning for leadership
“Every time you speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” —James Humes.
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G K Chesterton: Real pessimist
“The real pessimist is not he who is weary of evil, but he who is weary of good.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Reactionary
“I may be a reactionary, but I am sure I am not a Conservative. I would react against a great many things in the past as well as the present. I’d test them not by a calendar which records whether they have happened, but by a creed which decides whether they ought to happen.” —G…
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G K Chesterton: Nescience
“It will not be Science that kills belief in a hundred years. It will be Nescience that kills it, without even looking at what it kills. It will be a sort of supreme stupidity, that boasts of having studied everything except the thing that it criticizes.” —G K Chesterton. Source: @GKCDaily
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G K Chesterton: Reason and religion
“Secularists talk as if the Church has introduced a sort of schism between reason and religion. The truth is the Church was actually the first thing that ever tried to combine reason and religion. There had never before been any such union between the priests and the philosophers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Tiberius Julius Caesar: Duty of a good shepherd
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” —Tiberius Julius Caesar.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“A weak leader likes to tell us how many people work for them. A great leader is humbled to tell us how many people they work for.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater: Bolder and milder
“He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.” —Johann Kaspar Lavater, poet, writer, philosopher (15 Nov 1741-1801).
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G K Chesterton: Talking to oneself
“If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Dawson: Loss of faith in God
“The loss of faith in God is followed by the loss of universal moral principles and finally by the loss of all that binds man to man.” —Christopher Dawson.
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William Pitt the Elder: Can he talk nonsense?
“Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense, everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?” —William Pitt the Elder.
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G K Chesterton: Devils and nachines
“Pride makes a man a devil; but lust makes him a machine.” —G K Chesterton.
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Nora Ephron: Continually fascinated
“I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.” —Nora Ephron, journalist, author and filmmaker.
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G K Chesterton: Great lesson
“The great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ is that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders know that the total knowledge of those around them is vastly greater than everything they know alone.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Culture
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.” —-Jawaharlal Nehru, freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India (14 Nov 1889-1964).
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Will Durrant: Human history
“Human history is a fragment of biology. Man is one of countless millions of species and, like all the rest, is subject to the struggle for existence and the competition of the fittest to survive. All psychology, philosophy, statesmanship, and utopias must make their peace with these biological laws. Man can be traced to about…
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Robert N Charette: Puffery
“To the layperson, puffery seems like a license to lie, which, frankly, isn’t totally wrong. A well-known book on torts by William Prosser and W. Page Keeton stated it this way: ‘The puffing rule amounts to a seller’s privilege to lie his head off so long as he says nothing specific, on the theory that…
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Stefano Gabbana: Behind the scenes
“You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.” —Stefano Gabbana.
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Simon Sinek: Organizations
“Average organizations give their people something to work on. Great organizations give their people something to work toward.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Rather
“We would rather align ourselves with an average performer we can trust, over a top performer that we cannot trust.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stan Lee: Geeks
“[Being a ‘geek’] has become a badge of honor. It’s geeks who really make or break a TV show or movie or video game. They’re the ones who are passionate about these things and who collect [the paraphernalia] and talk about them. A geek is really somebody interested in communication and entertainment and [finding] the…
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Stan Lee: The more you read
“The more you read, the better you’re going to become as a storyteller.” –– Stan Lee, IGN.com.
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Stan Lee: Be appreciative
“If there are people who like the work you’ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that’s really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.” – Stan Lee, USA Today.
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Stan Lee: Doing a good thing
“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re…
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E L Doctorow: Writing is writing
“Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.” —E.L. Doctorow.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreary morals
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.” —Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894).
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Stan Lee: Excelsior
“You know, my motto is ‘Excelsior.’ That’s an old word that means ‘upward and onward to greater glory.’ It’s on the seal of the state of New York. Keep moving forward, and if it’s time to go, it’s time. Nothing lasts forever.” –– Stan Lee, Playboy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Seeds you plant
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Elie Wiesel: What hurts the victim most
“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.” —Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor.
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Simon Sinek: Knowledge and wisdom
“Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Courage
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” —G K Chesterton.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Courage
“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Soren Kierkegaard: True authority
“It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic.” —Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher.
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Anupam Kher: You don’t get to decide
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.” —Anupam Kher.
