Philip Pullman Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again.

  Philip Pullman

  Pain, Mistake, Believe

  Philip Pullman (2015). “The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials 3”, p.198, Random House

• I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Teacher, Mistake, Thinking

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

• The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Teacher, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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