William Faulkner Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• The past is never dead. It's not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Past, Heredity And Environment

  Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)

• The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.68, Vintage

• We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Wall, Powerful

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.150, Modern Library

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