„There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.“
Washington Irving7
amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1783 - 1859Ähnliche Zitate
„Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?“
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (1866), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
„I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
„Shepherd: Men are more eloquent than women made.
Nymph: But women are more powerful to persuade.“
— Thomas Randolph (poet) English poet and dramatist 1605 - 1635
Amyntas; or, The Impossible Dowry (1630; pub. 1638), Prologue
„Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.“
— Daniel Defoe, La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe
Variante: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
„It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten“
— Lobão Brazilian musician 1957
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)
— Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941
The Sound of Silence
Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)
Kontext: And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
„Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.“
— Stephen King, buch Brennen muss Salem
Quelle: 'Salem's Lot
„A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.“
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, buch Fanshawe
Quelle: Fanshawe
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
— Robert Fulghum, buch All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Quelle: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
What Can We Expect of the Moon?" in The American Legion Magazine, March 1965
General sources
„Modesty restrains weak love,
but it is a weak bridle to powerful love.“
— Torquato Tasso, Aminta
Act V, scene i.
Aminta (1573)
— Aristophanés, The Clouds
tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+1041
Clouds (423 BC)
