Robrecht Vanden Quotes & Sayings

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. — Sylvia Nasar

Good fiction makes the truth believable. — Tarrant Smith

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. — Blaise Pascal

Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night. — Lauren Willig

Now by the laws of war, better than defeating a country by fire and the sword, is to take it without strife. — Sun Tzu

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership. — Robert Dallek

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written. — Edward Carpenter

Plato judged right, that except kings themselves became philosophers, they who from their childhood are corrupted with false notions would never fall in entirely with the counsels of philosophers, and this he himself found to be true in the person of Dionysius. — Thomas More