Stuart Dodgson Collingwood quotes

“I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.”
-- Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1898.

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“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.”
-- Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Source : Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1898). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)”

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“No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.”
-- Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Source : "The Lewis Carroll Picture Book". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1899.

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“Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”

“Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.”

“In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.”

“What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

“No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”

“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”

“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”

“The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance”

Source : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.

“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House

“We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.23, Baker Books