James Neil Hollingworth quotes

James Neil Hollingworth quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that”
-- James Neil Hollingworth

#Courage Quotes #Judgement Quotes #Absence Quotes

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”
“A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?”
“It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?”
“Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.”
“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
“Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

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