WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Atherton, Gertrude – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Atherton, Gertrude -- The Living Present, Book 2, ch. 1, sec. 1 (1917) https://wist.info/atherton-gertrude/55318/ https://wist.info/atherton-gertrude/55318/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:05:48 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=55318 There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.


Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948) American author, essayist
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