"The most ominous of fallacies - the belief……" — Freya Stark
"The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction"
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53 Quotes by Freya Stark
Freya Stark has 53 quotes on this site.
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still…
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt…
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has…
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An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like…
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid…
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round…
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would…
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You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown…
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in…
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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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