David > David's Quotes

“Then you shall pass judgement on yourself. That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you are truly a wise man.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“One must command from each what each can perform. Authority is based first of all upon reason.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I never knew words could be so confusing.
Only confusing ... when you use a lot to say a little.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is the essence of liberation. That is, freedom begins the moment we forget ourselves.”
― Dave Eggers, The Eyes & the Impossible

“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
― Freeman John Dyson