“Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer (1985)

About Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961

American novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate (1954), author of 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms'.

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

“Every day above earth is a good day.”

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”

“Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.”

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”