Carl Lotus Becker Famous Quotes
"All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any."
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."
My own mind is my own church.
Carl Lotus Becker Quotations
"Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away."
James Thomson
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
Vincent Van Gogh
"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."
Johann von Goethe
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."
Noam Chomsky
"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long."
Miguel de Cervantes
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln