Top 30 Leonard Woolf Quotes
#1. Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Leonard Woolf
#3. The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.
Leonard Woolf
#4. I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.
Leonard Woolf
#5. The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
Leonard Woolf
#6. I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character .
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#7. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.
Leonard Woolf
#8. Checking items off a to-do list doesn't determine progress; focusing on your priorities is what counts.
Frank Sonnenberg
#9. Shall we take these candles with us and sit for a while on the piazza, or do you want to go to bed and nurse that tooth?"
Nurse that tooth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#10. One must be crucified on one's own private cross.
Leonard Woolf
#11. Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.
Margaret Heffernan
#12. There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when one is rung up to be told that Rupert was dead, or that one's brother was killed, and one knew that it was only to produce the kind of world we are living in now. Horrible.
Leonard Woolf
#13. One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug
#14. He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.
Joaquin Miller
#15. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
Leonard Woolf
#17. There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
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#19. Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation ... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
Leonard Woolf
#20. A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
Robert Trout
#21. Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
Alfie Kohn
#22. I give everyone upmost respect, and when people feel that, you end up getting the most out of your interaction with them. That connectivity is really important in my life.
Adam Rodriguez
#23. In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life.
Jane Goldman
#24. The fact is, I find it extremely difficult to force myself to read old letters ... Whenever one really knows the facts, one finds that what is accepted by contemporaries or posterity as the truth about them is so distorted or out of focus that it is not worth worrying about.
Leonard Woolf
#25. Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
William, Saroyan
#26. Leonard Woolf: If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude.
Virginia Woolf: I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?
Virginia Woolf
#27. Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf
#28. We will get growth and affordability in health care not by replicating the expertise of today's physicians in the form of new physicians. We will get it by embodying their expertise in devices and equipment, so expertise becomes widely available, more affordable, and much easier to obtain. This
Clayton M Christensen
#30. You can't love by desiring
an extremely vague desire
of a very vague moon.
Leonard Woolf
