4 Quotes Tagged: 1964

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

You are not the oil, you are not the air — merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency — your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends."
"No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice."
"If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice."