Quotes I'm Pondering August 2021

Some quotes I’ve been pondering this month.

“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.“

-Milan Kundera, writer

“The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.”

- Orison Swett Marden, american author

“Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

-Ralph Charell, author

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.“

-Saint Francis of Assisi, preacher & mystic

”It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

-Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

-George Bernard Shaw, playwright

“Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.”

-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States