“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.” FameAmbitionCelebrityAmbivalence Author:T.E. Lawrence
“Feisal called my Arabic 'a perpetual adventure' and used to provoke me to speak to him so that he could enjoy it.” HumorFriendshipHistoryLearningTravelDiscoveryLanguagesArabicCultural Exchange Author:T.E. Lawrence
“We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend themselves with paper tools. Meanwhile we glozed our fraud by conducting their necessary war purely and cheaply. But now this gloss had gone from me. Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.” WarPoliticsRegretGuiltMemoirBritainStatecraftLawrence Of ArabiaArab RevoltGuerilla Tactics Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom” MilitaryDisciplineInnovation Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“They were incorrigibly children of the idea, feckless and color-blind, for whom body and spirit were forever and inevitably opposed. The Semitic mind was strange and dark full of depressions and exaltations, lacking in rule, but with more of ardor and more fertile in belief than any other in the world. They were people of starts, for whom the abstract was the strongest motive, the process of infinite courage and variety, and the end nothing. The were unstable as water, and like water would perhaps finally prevail.” ArabsBedouin LifeSemitic Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” DreamsDreamingOpen MindDreamersOpen Eyes Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph