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Top 20 Ian Caldwell Quotes (2025 Update)

Ian Caldwell Quote: “The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.”

1. “The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.”

— Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell Quote: “Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.”

2. “Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.”

3. “Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.”

— Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell Quote: “Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It’s simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.”

4. “Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It’s simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.”

— Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell Quote: “Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.”

5. “Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I’d never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.”

6. “The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I’d never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.”

— Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell Quote: “The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.”

7. “The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It’s a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world’s ages.”

8. “Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It’s a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world’s ages.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “What a strange thing, to build a castle in the air. We made a friendship out of nothing, because nothing was the heart of what we shared.”

9. “What a strange thing, to build a castle in the air. We made a friendship out of nothing, because nothing was the heart of what we shared.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see.”

10. “The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “I’d begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.”

11. “I’d begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.”

12. “When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “The magic of Paul’s intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I’ve ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down. To count a hundred million stars, he told me once, at the rate of one per second, sounds like a job that no one could possibly complete in a lifetime. In reality, it would only take three years. The key is focus, a willingness not to be distracted. And that is Paul’s gift: an intuition of just how much a person can do slowly.”

13. “The magic of Paul’s intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I’ve ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down. To count a hundred million stars, he told me once, at the rate of one per second, sounds like a job that no one could possibly complete in a lifetime. In reality, it would only take three years. The key is focus, a willingness not to be distracted. And that is Paul’s gift: an intuition of just how much a person can do slowly.”

— Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell Quote: “Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci’ It’s from Ovid. It means, ‘A little phoenix is born anew from the father’s body, fated to live the same number of years.”

14. “Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci’ It’s from Ovid. It means, ‘A little phoenix is born anew from the father’s body, fated to live the same number of years.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there’s nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.”

15. “A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there’s nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “Deep in the marrow of our religion is the conviction that loss and sacrifice are noble. To surrender something is the highest proof of Christian duty.”

16. “Deep in the marrow of our religion is the conviction that loss and sacrifice are noble. To surrender something is the highest proof of Christian duty.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas wit a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Most painters do the opposite, starting with a whitewash and adding the shadows last. But Paul, who knows Leonardo so well you’d thing the old man slept on the bottom bun, understands the value of starting with the shadows. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones you let them see.”

17. “Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas wit a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Most painters do the opposite, starting with a whitewash and adding the shadows last. But Paul, who knows Leonardo so well you’d thing the old man slept on the bottom bun, understands the value of starting with the shadows. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones you let them see.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “My old friend has gained weight. His shirt is wrinkled and his hair is too long. We clamp hands on each other and trade kisses on the cheek, holding on longer than we should, because as the distance has grown, so has the enthusiasm of our greetings. Someday we will be the greatest of strangers.”

18. “My old friend has gained weight. His shirt is wrinkled and his hair is too long. We clamp hands on each other and trade kisses on the cheek, holding on longer than we should, because as the distance has grown, so has the enthusiasm of our greetings. Someday we will be the greatest of strangers.”

— Ian Caldwell

Ian Caldwell Quote: “Two people who think they’re in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.”

19. “Two people who think they’re in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn’t control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.”

20. “His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn’t control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes.”

21. “Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes.”

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Ian Caldwell Quote: “People lie. People disagree. People make mistakes. To find out the truth, you have to know how to search for it.”

22. “People lie. People disagree. People make mistakes. To find out the truth, you have to know how to search for it.”

— Ian Caldwell

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