Swami Vivekananda Quotes: Embrace Risks and Leadership in Life
“Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead. If you lose, you can guide.”
Swami Vivekananda
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Winston Churchill Quote: If You’re Going Through Hell – Never Give Up!
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
Theodor Fontane Quotes: Why Perseverance Beats Courage!
“Courage is good, but perseverance is better.”
Theodor Fontane
“A Good Book Is More Intelligent” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Dan Brown and Foucault’s Pendulum
“Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations – the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Death, Experience, and Creative Work
“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear… What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away… We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”
Umberto Eco
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one – H. L. Mencken
“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
H. L. Mencken
Legend: A Definition by H. L. Mencken
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Theism and Humanism
“When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.”
Walter Lippmann
Happiness in Relationships – Quote by H. L. Mencken
“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
H. L. Mencken