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Thinking Quotes by Robertson Davies
- I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story,"…
- These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check…
- The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly…
- There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and…
- A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
- I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most…
- Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I…
- The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory…
- This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are…
- All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
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