“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“You confuse what's important with what's impressive.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“Only connect!”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
"Unless we remember we cannot understand."
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
"A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man."
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
“It is not that the Englishman can’t feel — it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks — his pipe might fall out if he did.”
― E.M. Forster (1879-1970)