"Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding."

--

Source : B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

B. H. Liddell Hart

#Self Quotes #Society Quotes #Devil Quotes

“You can't do the will of God if you don't know the Word of God.”
“For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive.”

Source : FaceBook post by Natsuo Kirino from Oct 23, 2016
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.”
“When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift; but we also encounter the Passion, the Cross of Jesus and his Resurrection. Through this gaze of adoration, he draws us toward himself, within his mystery, through which he wants to transform us as he transformed the Host.”
“[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."”
“If I were to run for president, it's because I believe in our country.”
“Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.”

You may also like:

Antoine-Henri Jomini
Writer
Carl von Clausewitz
Military Historian
Erwin Rommel
Soldier
Heinz Guderian
Author
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
J. F. C. Fuller
Historian
John Keegan
Historian
Robert Graves
Poet
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom