Francis Alexander Durivage famous quotes

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Ignorant #Enlightened #Dread

The highest art is artlessness.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Art #Art Is

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Beautiful #Echoes #Devil

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Real #Light #Merit

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Christian #Revenge #Fire

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Death #Lying #Graves

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Character #Blow #Jewels

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage

#Writing #Starvation

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect,

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.