There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
"Enoch Arnold Bennett" was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Arnold Bennett on Wikipedia.The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Good taste is better than bad taste but bad taste is better than no taste.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
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