Damage Slight

Famous quotes containing the words damage and/or slight:

“I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since ... I could never belong entirely to one side of any question.”
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)

“The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)