John Hedrick > John's Quotes

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.”
― Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

“And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the absorbing pursuit of the moment will appear, not only to others, but to ourselves, a very short time hence.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin