T.E. Lawrence Quotes

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

The living moment is everything.

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.