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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Address at Princeton University, “The Educated Citizen” (22 March 1954).
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Change
- Wisdom
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest⁠—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Treasure Island (1883), Part One: The Old Buccaneer, Chapter IIn context
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Kidnapped (1886), Chapter IIn context
We are all victims of mythology in one way or another. We are the inheritors, and many times the propogators, of a desire to believe what we want to believe, regardless of whether or not it is true.
JSJ.V. Stewart
Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter IIIn context
“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter IIIn context
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745A Tale of a Tub (1704), Dedication
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 469
- Change
- Decisions
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus55–120
Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus55–120
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus55–120Histories (A.D. 104-109).
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Tacitus55–120