"[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity."

-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Years Quotes #History Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth isÂ everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of theÂ first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadthsÂ and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.”
“There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.”
“She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.”
“He that runs may read.”
“We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.”
“Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.”

Source : Henry George (2014). “The Crime of Poverty: Speeches and Articles”, p.152, epubli
“More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.”
“We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.”

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