Scott Watson quotes

“To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.”
-- Scott Watson

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“Someone stole my heart. I haven't gotten it back, because I haven't found anyone to steal it back for me.”
-- Scott Watson

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“What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?”
-- Scott Watson

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“I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.”

“No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.”

“Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.”

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

“Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.”

“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.”

“God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.”

“Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.”

“Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”

Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.