Often Quotes

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.

I often went entire days without speaking – unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up:

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.