"When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Real Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.29, Atlantic Books Ltd
“There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.”
“everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.”
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side”

Source : Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”
“You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.”
“The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.”
“I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.”
“The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.”

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