More Quotes by James Joyce
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
