The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen. — T. E. Lawrence Commander Copy Share Image
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. — T. E. Lawrence Eating Copy Share Image
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Book Copy Share Image
Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true. — T. E. Lawrence Come true Copy Share Image
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. — T. E. Lawrence God Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T. E. Lawrence Air Copy Share Image
Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.… — T. E. Lawrence Arabia Copy Share Image
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. — T. E. Lawrence Achieving dreams Copy Share Image
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow,… — T. E. Lawrence Arabia Copy Share Image
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final… — T. E. Lawrence Best shot Copy Share Image
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such… — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on… — T. E. Lawrence Believe Copy Share Image
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the… — T. E. Lawrence Absolutes Copy Share Image
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born:… — T. E. Lawrence Forever Copy Share Image
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Animal Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Alas Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Army Copy Share Image
“I loved you, so I drew these tides of Men into my hands And wrote my will across the Sky and stars… — T. E. Lawrence Little things Copy Share Image
If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear… — T. E. Lawrence Agree Copy Share Image
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He… — T. E. Lawrence Body Copy Share Image