Eric Havelock Quotes & Sayings

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. — Mark Haddon

If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle goes on forever. — Brian Littrell

Everyone should be allowed to play with ideas, to tumble them about, to discuss them and distil them, until they have fixed upon the best. Yet too many ideas are locked away, held captive by the way they are expressed.... The best way to rescue these vital thoughts is to explain them in lucid language. — Iain King

A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril. — Eric A. Havelock

And just like that she was crying.
I felt a little like That Guy who holds a baby at arm's length because he's afraid it's going to pee on him. — Tessa Gratton

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California. — Eleanor Coppola

All I ever wanted was you. Oh, my love. My only love. — Elizabeth Anthony

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures. — Eric A. Havelock

Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic? — Eric A. Havelock

It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon

Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it. — Debasish Mridha

Isn't life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions? — Pawan Mishra