"I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest."

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Source : John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1830, e-artnow

John Buchan

#Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Believe Quotes

“That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.”
“I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.”
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
“I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.”
“Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.”
“In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.”
“Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”

Source : Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.181, Temple University Press

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