Logo
Quote by Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes,

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

Other quotes by Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Courage
Author
Winston Churchill
Read Quote

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Adversity
Author
Winston Churchill
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Fear
category

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. – Anthony Horowitz

Category:
Fear

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. – Natan Sharansky

Category:
Fear

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. – John Cheever

Category:
Fear

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. – Andrew Motion

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Category:
War

After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. – Maurice Strong

Category:
environmental

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. – Fernando Pessoa

Category:
Trees

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and Im lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see whats out there and see whats happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way. – Jennifer Garner

Category:
Education