I.B. George Quotes

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

The primary business I must attend to every day is to fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and its total crap to pretend its not

The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it, require some similar shock.

Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

In secret we met -In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years, How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]