Often Quotes

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

It often helps us become the people we’ve always wanted to be and move away from the people we were.

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.

Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.

People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.