Books Quote by Walter Benjamin

“But where's the man, who counsel can bestow, Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know? Unbias'd, or by favour or by…

— Alexander Pope

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

— Jonathan Swift

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

— Pericles

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

— Alexander Pope

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One…

— John Cheever

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the…

— Walter Benjamin

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than…

— Alex Gibney

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

— Susan Burton

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the…

— Raekwon