Passage Quotes - page 2

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. (Mortimer Adler)
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. View quote
René Char
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings. View quote
Richard Cobden
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war. View quote
George Orwell
But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths. View quote
Carl Eckart
A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not. View quote
Carl Eckart
Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. [...] It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see.... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed. View quote
José Saramago
Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. View quote
T. S. Eliot
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage. View quote
Roger Scruton
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force. View quote
George Steiner
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. (Nadine Gordimer)
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. View quote
Edward Young
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. View quote
Arthur Ashe
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. View quote
Alberto Manguel
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. View quote
Sophocles
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a name - in the history of philosophy. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. View quote
Abraham Verghese
Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. View quote
Philip K. Dick
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. View quote
James Surowiecki
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff