"Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?"

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Source : H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library

H. Rider Haggard

#Wise Quotes #Running Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.”
“I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.”

Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann
“Let's blow some stuff up.”
“Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.”
“Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.”

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