"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."

-- Charles Darwin

#Truth Quotes #New Relationship Quotes #Reality Quotes

“My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.”
“To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.”
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”

Source : Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”
“Human nature is what Heaven supplies.”
“Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.”
“I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.”
“I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs”
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.”

Source : Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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