Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. – Bertolt Brecht
Mixing ones wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. – Bertolt Brecht
Whats breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht
Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)