“He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.” ThinkingBelieveAgeYoungBeliefNaturalWiseFoolDifficultyCaughtConvictionAlacrity Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.” LooksIndividualNaturalRightsTasteConvictionConclusionDisorderCivilityIndividual RightsEnglish History Author:Anna Pavlova
“Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.” MenWorldWayTwoIdeasSpiritualLawPoetryNaturalMoralMagicMovementInspiredConvictionPoetry IsInwardTwo WaysFelicityProfunditySpiritual NaturePhysiognomy Book:Essays in Criticism Source: Essays in Criticism
“I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.” IfsFeelsMindMayLittlesHas BeensStatesTogetherLawCausesNaturalPathEffectsLateUnderstoodCrossesConvictionHungryVarietyEnjoyedChemistryHaste Author:Michael Faraday