Isabelle Beernaert Quotes & Sayings

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring — Bran Ferren

Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with — Jane Austen

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel. — Josh Billings

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world. — Patricia Hampl

The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers . — Robert Alley

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic. — Stefan Sagmeister

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen