21 Quotations by Isak Dinesen
- 1. A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

- 2. Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from boo ...

- 3. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

- 4. I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

- 5. I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the ...

- 6. I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of ...

- 7. I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, a ...

- 8. I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich an ...

- 9. In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very ...

- 10. It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is the ...

- 11. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

- 12. Justice is truth in action.

- 13. Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get d ...

- 14. Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at ...

- 15. Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I ...

- 16. The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea.

- 17. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but reveal to them their ...

- 18. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- 19. We must leave our mark on our life while we have it in our power.

- 20. When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a li ...

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