Quotes by John Buchan

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and...

#Wisdom

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their...

#Genius

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

#Genius

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep...

#John Buchan

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I...

#John Buchan

Without humility there can be no humanity.

#John Buchan

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to...

#Debt

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make...

#John Buchan

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather...

#John Buchan

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it,...

#John Buchan

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

#John Buchan

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but...

#John Buchan