"The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks."

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Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.476

Henry Thomas Buckle

#Pain Quotes #Noise Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
“My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.”
“I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything”
“All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.”
“Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.”
“The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.”
“No one who likes a song lacks congeniality ...”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Gentleman Called”, p.76, Open Road Media
“There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.”

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