Author: T. E. Lawrence

Quotes

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

- T. E. Lawrence

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

- T. E. Lawrence

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

- T. E. Lawrence

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

- T. E. Lawrence

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