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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Endymion (1880), Ch. 85.
- Intelligence
As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 4In context
- Fear
I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 2In context
- Good & Evil
Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Three Musketeers (1844), Chapter IIn context
- Courage
Don’t start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don’t. They’ll make you look like chopped liver.
Harlan Ellison1934–2018IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)
- Debate
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Literary Ethics (1838)
- Thinking
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, “Is it reasonable?”
Richard Feynman1918–1988“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”, p. 28-29
- Thinking
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925)
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIn context
Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.
Ian Fleming1908–1964Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964), Ch. 2
Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghumborn 1937It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (1988)
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Le Fil de l’épée (1932), Il vaut mieux avoir une méthode mauvaise plutôt que de n’en avoir aucune.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Statement of advice on being presented the Radcliffe Medal, as quoted in “Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg” by Colleen Walsh, in The Harvard Gazette (29 May 2015)
- Leadership
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 7 (p. 4)