Inspirational Quotes by Dorothy Thompson (American Journalist)

All great art … creates in the beholder not self-satisfaction but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Art

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Integrity

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Fear, Light

And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Time, Courage, Fear, Living

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Genius

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Ideas

Inventive man has invented nothing—nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Birds

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict—alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Conflict

Courage … is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
—Dorothy Thompson
Topics: Courage

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