#though

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. ↗

— John Grierson

#conflicting #happens #important #more #often

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel. ↗

— John Grierson

#attitude #deriving #good #hegel #i

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. ↗

— Mel Gussow

#connoisseur #laughter #often #though

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #fight #i #into #persona

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer. ↗

— David Guterson

#answer #bury #evade #gives #how

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. ↗

— David Guterson

#almost #basis #became #becoming #being

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#between #building #countries #get #going

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

#i #idealism #realism #tempered #thought

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#everybody #everybody else #nobody #research #see

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#discovery #everybody #nobody #seeing #seen