Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Not necessarily a good man
‘The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.’ —G K Chesterton.
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Stewart Brand: New technology
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller you’re part of the road.” —Stewart Brand.
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Morgan Freeman: Jealousy
“Jealousy is a good indication that you are doing things the right way. People never get jealous of losers.” —Morgan Freeman.
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Thomas Merton: Pains are prayers
“Pains are prayers in proportion as you shut up about them.” —Thomas Merton.
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Henry David Thoreau: Methinks
“Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.” —Henry David Thoreau.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux: Who is content with nothing
“Who is content with nothing possesses all things.” —Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet (1 Nov 1636-1711).
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G K Chesterton: The whole object
“The whole object of real art, of real romance — and, above all, of real religion — is to prevent people from losing the humility and gratitude which are thankful for daylight and daily bread; to prevent them from regarding daily life as dull or domestic life as narrow…” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Give thanks
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.” —C S Lewis.
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Robert B Cialdini: When uncertainty reigns
“In general, when we are unsure of ourselves, when the situation is unclear or ambiguous, when uncertainty reigns, we are most likely to look to and accept the actions of others as correct.” —Robert B. Cialdini.
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Gilbert Parker: No refuge from memory and remorse
“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.” —Gilbert Parker.
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Bertrand Russell: Greatest of political goods
“Freedom is the greatest of political goods.” —Bertrand Russell, philosopher.
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Simon Sinek: Giving
“Giving is sometimes as simple as saying thank you to someone. Let’s all give a little more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Josh Wolfe: Resilience
“Progress often comes from people who often came from life-circumstances that seemed impossible…. People who because of adversity, not in spite of it, have an inextinguishable flame that gets lit. This propulsive force—resilience—that against the seemingly impossible makes great achievement inevitable. And it makes the bad stuff of great adversity often lead to the good…
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Steve Jobs: Already naked
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.” —Steve Jobs.
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G K Chesterton: Worst moment for an atheist
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bob Marley: Always tell someone how you feel
“Always tell someone how you feel, because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye, and regret can last for a lifetime.” —Bob Marley.
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Charles de Gaulle: Patriotism and nationalism
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first, nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” —Charles de Gaulle.
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Robert Sapolsky: Science
“Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.” —Robert Sapolsky, biologist.
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G K Chesterton: These are the days
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton.
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Voltaire: Guilty
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.” —Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778).
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Lester Bangs: Only true currency
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” —Lester Bangs in Almost Famous.
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Robert B Cialdini: Attitude
“Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.” ― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
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Marlo Thomas: Never face facts
“Never face facts, if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.” —Marlo Thomas.
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Horace Mann: Addition to human power
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” —Horace Mann, education reformer.
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Warren Buffett: Take the job
“Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Work and passion
“Work is expending effort on things we don’t want to do. Passion is expending energy on things we love to do. The goal is to do no work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn’t always beauty
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” —Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20 Nov 1923-2014).
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Single visible fellowship
“Anybody who has reached the point of looking round to find a single, visible fellowship of human beings which claims to be the one Church of Christ, has got to become a Catholic or give up his search in despair.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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G K Chesterton: Persecution of religion
“The persecution of religion by science has relatively, perhaps, only begun; but it is already at work, in we know not how many obscure cases of pedantry and cruelty. The mystics are very likely to be the martyrs when the psychologists become the kings.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Rationality and religion
“It is not merely that anything religious may be persecuted on the ground that it is not rational. It is also that anything irrational may be tolerated so long as it is also irreligious. It is only lunacy to assert religion; it is no longer lunacy to deny reason.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: In flux
“Usually if [companies] can gain competitive advantage very quickly, you have to worry about them losing it quickly, too…. When an industry is in flux, there are a lot of people that think they’re the survivors, or the ones that are going to prosper, where it turns out otherwise.” —Warren Buffett (2002).
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Robert F Kennedy: One-fifth
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.” —Robert F Kennedy.
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Will Rogers: People start thinking
“A king can stand people fighting but he can’t last long if people start thinking.” —Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935).
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Simon Sinek: Clear sense
“When we have a clear sense of where we’re going, we are flexible in how we get there.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Dickens: Suffering
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
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Holmes Rolston III: Destroying species
“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.” —Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (b. 19 Nov 1932).
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Victor Hugo: Laughter is the sun
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” —Victor Hugo.
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C S Lewis: Always some peace
“There is always some peace in having submitted to the right. Don’t spoil it by worrying about the results, if you can help it. It is not your business to succeed (no one can be sure of that) but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.” —C S Lewis.
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Carl Schurz: My country
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” — Carl Schurz.
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Eckhart Tolle: Inner transformation
“As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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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.
