"Judgment is contained in the act of trying…" — V.S. Naipaul

"Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand."

— V.S. Naipaul

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115 Quotes by V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul has 115 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children,…
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when…
Small things start us in new ways of thinking
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it…
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the…
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for…
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the…
But everything of value about me is in my books.
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms…
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
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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