Edward Forster Quotes
Most popular Edward Forster Quotes
![I do not believe in Belief. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/51/27051A-i-do-not-believe-in-belief-edward-forster.png)
I do not believe in Belief.
![Nonsense and beauty have close connection. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/41/16641A-nonsense-and-beauty-have-close-connection-edward-forster.png)
Nonsense and beauty have close connection.
![How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/65/16465A-how-can-i-tell-what-i-think-till-i-see-edward-forster.png)
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
![Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/34/28734A-either-life-entails-courage-or-it-ceases-be-life-edward-forster.png)
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
![One has two duties—to be worried and not to be worried. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/47/19947A-one-has-two-duties-to-be-worried-not-be-worried-edward-forster.png)
One has two duties—to be worried and not to be worried.
![Truth is a flower in whose neighborhood others must wither. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/09/41309A-truth-is-a-flower-in-whose-neighborhood-others-must-wither-edward-forster.png)
Truth is a flower in whose neighborhood others must wither.
![Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/34/36734A-where-there-is-officialism-every-human-relationship-suffers-edward-forster.png)
Where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.
![To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/00/26400A-to-make-us-feel-small-in-right-way-is-function-edward-forster.png)
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.
![Ecstasy cannot last, but can carve a channel for something lasting. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/50/29950A-ecstasy-cannot-last-but-can-carve-channel-something-lasting-edward-forster.png)
Ecstasy cannot last, but can carve a channel for something lasting.
![The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/60/51660A-the-main-facts-in-human-life-are-five-birth-food-edward-forster.png)
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
![America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/30/25930A-america-is-rather-like-life-you-can-usually-find-it-edward-forster.png)
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for.
![If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/09/42209A-if-there-is-on-earth-a-house-with-many-mansions-edward-forster.png)
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
![Listening is a very dangerous thing. If one listens, one may be convinced. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/70/770A-listening-is-a-very-dangerous-thing-if-one-listens-one-edward-forster.png)
Listening is a very dangerous thing. If one listens, one may be convinced.
![Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/88/29988A-spoon-feeding-in-the-long-run-teaches-us-nothing-but-edward-forster.png)
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
![Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think creation's. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/20/28820A-think-before-you-speak-is-criticisms-motto-speak-before-you-edward-forster.png)
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think creation's.
![One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/56/41256A-one-must-be-fond-of-people-trust-them-if-one-edward-forster.png)
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
![Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/75/26975A-beauty-ought-to-look-a-little-surprised-it-is-emotion-edward-forster.png)
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.
![The historian must have some conception of how people who are not historians behave. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/98/8798A-the-historian-must-have-some-conception-how-people-who-are-edward-forster.png)
The historian must have some conception of how people who are not historians behave.
![Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darknesses. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/41/29141A-our-final-experience-like-our-first-is-conjectural-we-move-edward-forster.png)
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darknesses.
![The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/33/20033A-the-emotions-may-be-endless-the-more-we-express-them-edward-forster.png)
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
![We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/25/16225A-we-must-be-willing-to-let-go-life-we-have-edward-forster.png)
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
![Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/64/25364A-life-never-gives-us-what-we-want-at-moment-that-edward-forster.png)
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
![Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/57/30757A-faith-to-my-mind-is-a-stiffening-process-sort-mental-edward-forster.png)
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
![What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/34/24734A-what-is-wonderful-about-great-literature-is-that-it-transforms-edward-forster.png)
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
![The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/05/27305A-the-only-books-that-influence-us-are-those-which-we-edward-forster.png)
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
![We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance, In the present, amidst dangers whose outcomes we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/45/27745A-we-are-willing-enough-to-praise-freedom-when-she-is-edward-forster.png)
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance, In the present, amidst dangers whose outcomes we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
![Art . . . is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden . . . it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/15/29515A-art-is-the-one-orderly-product-which-our-middling-race-edward-forster.png)
Art . . . is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden . . . it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
![What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. - Edward Forster quote.](/img/q/19/28819A-what-about-the-creative-state-in-it-man-is-taken-edward-forster.png)
What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.