"The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can."

--

Source : James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.298

James Fitzjames Stephen

#Important Quotes #Importance Quotes

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.”
“Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in this spacecraft was provided by the guy who submitted the cheapest tender.”
“Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.”
“Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2010). “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation”, p.6, Bantam
“If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!”

Source : Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.
“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”
“I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.”

You may also like:

Frederic Harrison
Henry James Sumner Maine
Historian
James Kenneth Stephen
Poet
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
Leslie Stephen
Author
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
Judge
Thomas B. Macaulay
Former Secretary at War
Virginia Woolf
Writer
William Wilberforce
British Politician