Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
—Carl Rogers (American Psychologist)
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development:|1. It’s nonsense, don’t waste my time.|2. It’s interesting, but not important.|3. I always said it was a good idea.|4. I thought of it first.
—Arthur C. Clarke (British Author)
There are five tests of the evidence of education—correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed habits of thought and action; sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards; power and habit of reflection; efficiency or the power to do.
—Nicholas Murray Butler (American Philosopher)
Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
—Harold Macmillan (British Head of State)
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
—Harold Macmillan (British Head of State)
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
—Louise Hay (American Author)
No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
—Joan Baez (American Singer)
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don’t despise it. But it can’t quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
—Georges Bernanos (French Author)