More Quotes by James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
Love loves to love love.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.