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Quote by William Allen White

“A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.”

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William Allen White was an American editor, born on February 10, 1868, and died on January 29, 1944. He is known for his work at The Kansas City Star, which under his leadership became a model for the American press. more

“Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.”

May Persons Art Facts Spiritual Space Liberty Struggle Conditions Movement Truth Is Highest Essence Chaos Artistic Categories Time And Space Here And There Generalization

Book:Dreamers of the Ghetto

Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto

“[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.”

Book Soul My Soul Censorship Pins

Book:Dreamers of the Ghetto

Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto

“O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.”

Giving Children Hands Dies Father Simple Vision Clear Give Me Inner Child Before I Die Clear Vision Simple Faith

Book:Works

Source: Works

“What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!”

Giving Heaven Ignorance Doctors Medical Lectures Demonstrating Clinicals

Book:Dreamers of the Ghetto

Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto

“I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!”

Poetry Hate I Hate Glitter French Poetry

Book:Dreamers of the Ghetto

Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto

“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.”

Ifs Want May Wise Wise Words Analogies

Book:The Principle of Nationalities

Source: The Principle of Nationalities

“...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.”

Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto

“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.”

Men May Said Age Young Names Grows Conscience Young Man Cowardice Caution

Author:Hesketh Pearson

“Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.”

Deals Behinds Fate Series Blow Crush Expecting Depressing Womb Tombs Stalking Monotony Least Expecting

Book:The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary

Source: The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary

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