Wise Words On Wednesday: Library Terror!
“…library terror – that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books…”
Owen Barfield, Night Operation
Category: Quotation
Wise Words On Wednesday: Language
“We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words
Wise Words on Wednesday: Heroic Hearts
We are not now that strength which in old days
Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Wise Words on Wednesday: Censorship
We are all willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, admist dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship
E. M. Forster
Wise Words On Wednesday: Hell
“Hell is incessant autobiography.”
Bruce Edwards, Responding to the 2012 doctoral research of Dr. Crystal Hurd
Wise Words on Wednesday: Literary Digestion
We find that the mind is better fed by digesting a page than by devouring a volume
Thomas Macaulay
Wise Words On Wednesday: Under Pressure
“Pressure makes diamonds”
George S. Patton Jr