87 Quotes by Olive Schreiner

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea....

When the curtain falls no one is ready

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.