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Fear of error
which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight
of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer
reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And
yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
-- Louis Aragon
1897-1982, French Poet
Both men and
women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
-- Eleanor Bron
British Actress
We all carry
within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages.
But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to
fight them in ourselves and in others.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential
Writer
The
organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to
deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary
cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to
understand one another.
-- John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author
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It is in our
faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each
other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are
one.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927, British Humorous
Writer, Novelist, Playwright
Once we know
our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
In the works
of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is
confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements
are labored, and results are humdrum.
-- Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat,
Philosopher
It wounds a
man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit
through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc.,
which are his own faults, than through incapacity and
unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
-- Lord Melbourne
1779-1848, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
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