Eric Sevareid > Quotes

“Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.”
― Eric Severeid

“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”
― Eric Sevareid

“The chief cause of problems is solutions.”
― Eric Sevareid

“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
― Eric Sevaeid

“Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you listener's information.”
― Eric Sevareid

“There was terror—but not panic. One could panic in his heart, but two together could not show it, nor a hundred in a group. They neutralize one another, and therein lies the thing that makes the British slightly different. They have laid manifold restraints upon themselves in their mutual intercourse. The British were still afraid of one another.”
― Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream

“The women did not express themselves with their own men, the vanquished, but gave themselves at once to the victors, whatever their nationality, no matter what they had done . . .”
― Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream

“Is it only coincidence that short attention spans and the loss of wilderness characterize our time?”
― Eric Sevareid, Canoeing with the Cree

“My father wrote: 'I have been out into Dakota again. It is as green as a garden now, and everyone seems hopeful. The folks there are about the same.' The folks are about the same--and that is the basic fact and the wonderful hope.”
― Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream

“And, said a Greek: “Nothing that is vast enters into the affairs of mortals without a curse.”
― Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream

“We in the outdoor community face a tremendous challenge: We must persuade others to preserve wilderness not just to protect the planet’s biodiversity, but because wilderness is essential to our spiritual well-being.”
― Eric Sevareid, Canoeing with the Cree

“For a moment I felt very calm. I was not excited. I merely thought, “This is what all the rivers come to. All those rivers. This is the sea, where everything ends.”
― Eric Sevareid, Canoeing with the Cree

“The power of America is vast and so is that of Soviet Communism. But I observe that as between the curses, millions of human beings around this world prefer the American curse. They wish to come here; next to none wish to go there. It is so strange—these ordinary, unlettered people know in their bones what freedom is, even if their intellectuals do not. Freedom is the condition of feeling like one’s self.”
― Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream

“The events, the scenes, the persons and ideas”
― Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream