"Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention."

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Source : Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.261, ReadHowYouWant.com

Bryce Courtenay

#Conventions Quotes #Self Determination Quotes #Listen To Yourself Quotes

“Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.”
“Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.”

Source : Augustus De Morgan (1966). “On the syllogism: and other logical writings”
“I am responsible only to God and history.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.”
“I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.”
“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
“You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.”
“Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.”

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