10 Quotes - 3 December 2019

Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
- Francis Ford Coppola

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
- Cicero

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

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