Alois Podhajsky Quotes

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

- Rebecca Solnit

Writer

· USA

• Empathy
• Perspective
• Self-perception

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

- Antoine Rivarol

Writer

· France

• Virtue

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writer

· Germany

• Evil
• Reading

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

- Virginia Woolf

Writer

· England

• Felt
• Literature

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

- David Von Drehle

Writer

• Past

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

- François de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

· France

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

- Susan Sontag

Writer

· USA

• Conversation
• Intelligent

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. Explain

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writer

· Germany

• Reputation

Man is born barbarous–he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

Writer

· France

• Beast
• Born

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

- Carolyn Hax

Writer

• Children
• Skills