Golden rule Quote by Charles Darwin

“Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

“I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to…

— Dana Spiotta

“Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat to his…

— James Carlos Blake

“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring…

— Charlotte Brontë

“You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to…

— Sara Sheridan

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,…

— Albert Camus

“1897 edition How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been…

— Bram Stoker