Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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G K Chesterton: Government becomes the God
“Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history; but it is written most plainly across that recent history of Communist Russia; which was created by Lenin.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: Bubbles
“In economics, it’s far easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I mean, you can see bubbles develop and things, but you do not know how big the bubble will get.” —Warren Buffett (2005).
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Machiavelli: New order of things
“There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This luke-warmness…
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Kurt Vonnegut: Be careful
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night.
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Simon Sinek: Stand for people
“Stand for people; not a product or service or metric or number. Stand for real, living, breathing people and we will change the world.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lee Hsien Loong: Long-term perspective
“I think you can only plan in broad terms where you want to go and what are the major pieces which you want to put in place. And then you have to leave a lot of space for the economy to develop, for people to pursue their passions, and for technology to unfold. But you…
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G K Chesterton: Modern toleration
“Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. To say that I must not deny my opponent’s faith is to say that I must not discuss it; I may not say that Buddhism is false, and that is all I want to say about Buddhism.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Change
“Can you hate the world enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing?” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Humbled
“In a perfect friendship…each member feels, in his secret heart, humbled before the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. Especially when the whole group is together; each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in the others.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Social system denies the family
“Hardly anybody dares to defend the family. The world around us has accepted a social system which denies the family. It will sometimes help the child in spite of the family; the mother in spite of the family; the grandfather in spite of the family. It will not help the family.” —G K Chesterton.
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Martin Luther: Husbands and wives
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” —Martin Luther.
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Will Durant: Acted rightly
“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly.” —Will Durant, historian.
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Bill Mauldin: Advances in civilization
“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.” —Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist (29 Oct 1921-2003).
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Simon Sinek: Dance that makes us human
“Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Verbal controversy
“I will not engage in a verbal controversy with the skeptic because long experience has taught me that the skeptic’s ultimate skepticism is about the use of his own words and the reliability of his own intelligence.” —G K Chesterton.
