Dryad-Born Quotes

“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“The wisest as well as the most dangerous men are those who observe without speaking.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“So often man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“I have heard that in moments of extreme terror and suspense, our minds can deliver to our aid a remedy for the situation if we have the courage not to flinch from it. Too often we are doomed to fail simply because we believe too quickly that we will.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“One cannot overestimate the power of persistence. It is persistence that guides a stonemason’s hands and causes mighty castles and temples to be built.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“Hear the other side. What is usually lacking, when there is trouble, is the lack of listening. So quick we are to rush to judgment. We would do well to listen more. There would be far fewer disputes.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“Even wild beasts feel kindness, nor is there any animal so savage that good treatment will not tame it and win love from it. It is a true principle. And it is even more true when dealing with men. Men can be persuaded to many things through small acts of kindness.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. Beware of those desires.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“We are surrounded by various histories and fragments from the ages. Some are true. Some are only the approximation of truth. Some truths are hard to accept. If you believe only what you like in the histories, and reject what you don’t want to believe, it is not the truth you seek, but a confirmation of your own opinions. You will never find truth that way.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“There are an equal number of foolish theories that persist despite the evidence to the contrary. To kill a mistruth or an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” —”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“You can have your opinions. Leave me to mine.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“If you want to know something, you eventually find a way to discover it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“fraying”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” —Possidius Adeodat,”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“A great poet from ancient times put it this way: Love is the beauty of the soul.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“Marriages are all happy; it’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.’ ” Hettie”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“It is a hard task to comfort the proud.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” —”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“I apologize again for another cliffhanger ending.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“A horse resists the reins but submits because of the bridle.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“A scholar’s ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“If you believe only what you like in the histories, and reject what you don’t want to believe, it is not the truth you seek, but a confirmation of your own opinions. You will never find truth that way.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“Would you shove a man in front of a runaway cart to stop it from crushing five people? Or would you jump in front of the cart yourself? Either way, a person dies and five are saved. In one case it is murder and in the other the sacrifice is willing. There is a difference.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“One of the secrets to holding power over others was never revealing how much you really knew.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“It’s bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“each carry within us the bud of true goodness as well as evil. Which we nourish determines our destiny.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born

“If you believe only what you like in the histories, and reject what you don’t want to believe, it is not the truth you seek, but a confirmation of your own opinions.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Dryad-Born