Sir John Robert Seeley quotes

" A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. " # Writers and Writing # Office # Danger

" If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. " # Politicians and Politics # Truth # Reason

" No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. " # Enthusiasm

" Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. " # Success

" Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient. The Führer in Nuremberg said: 'Woe to him who does not believe!' He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man. What is wealth? What are possessions? What does it all mean? Problems come despite them, only faith is left. Woe to him who does not believe! " # Leaders and Leadership # Faith # Friends and Friendship

" We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. " # Empire # Absence # Death and Dying

" Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting. " # Life and Living

" Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. " # Life and Living # Dance and Dancing # Love

" Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. " # Action

" Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out! " # Education # Words # Action