Samuel Daniel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-
Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
-
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
-
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
-
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
-
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
-
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
-
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
-
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
-
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
-
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
-
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
-
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
-
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
-
Travel teaches as much as books.
-
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
-
My daughter loves singing above all else.
-
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
-
Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
-
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
-
I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
-
My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.
-
The wise are above books.
