T. E. Lawrence

Quotes

• “Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public ...”
• “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find t...”
• “It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of ...”
• “All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come...”
• “The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowle...”
• “Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their wa...”
• “There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.”