Daudet Alphonse Quotes & Sayings

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. — Alphonse Daudet

Harry S. Truman, in his typical no-nonsense style, once said that 'An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert.' Expert knowledge is absolutely necessary, but — Ha-Joon Chang

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. — Alphonse Daudet

Hate is the wrath of the weak. — Alphonse Daudet

Music is another planet. — Alphonse Daudet

When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one. — Galen Rowell

Pick your battles. You don't have to show up to every arguement you're invited to. — Mandy Hale

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,
that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood. — Alphonse Daudet

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. — Anne Sullivan

By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way. — Gurcharan Das

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. — Alphonse Daudet

Hatred - The anger of the weak. — Alphonse Daudet

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation ... — Alphonse Daudet

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. — Katharine Hepburn

No one knows more about the way you think than you do. — Seth Godin