Wit & Wisdom
Henry Rosovsky; Christopher Hitchens; Dante Alighieri
“Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.”
Harvard economist Henry Rosovsky, quoted in The Washington Post
“The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.”
Christopher Hitchens, quoted in The Boston Globe
“The desire to reveal is greater than the desire to conceal.”
Carl Jung, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
Abraham Lincoln, quoted in the Reading, Pa., Eagle
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf, quoted in the Associated Press
“Home is a place that when you go there, they have to take you in.”
Robert Frost, quoted in the Orlando Sentinel
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes names as it changes directions.”
Dante Alighieri, quoted in Bookreporter.com
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