Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 14

• It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

  Fred Hoyle

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  Fred Hoyle (1966). “Of Men and Galaxies”, p.21, University of Washington Press

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• A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

  Theodor Haecker

  Sight, Hands, Wish

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Majority Vote, Catholic, Determined

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• Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Adventure, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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