Edward Benson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
-- Edward Benson

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

Edward Benson famous quotes

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