...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be…

“To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.”

— Edwin Abbott Abbott

“Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his…

— Edwin A. Abbott

“Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire…

— Edwin Abbott Abbott

This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach,…

— Christopher Cokinos

Life is to learn.Learn lesson about self worth, self belief, to take any challenge in stride, fear never let you down when encounter adversity.…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

— Aida Overton Walker

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

— Angela Kinsey

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we…

— Richard Baxter

If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from…

— Roger Williams

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

— Elbert Hubbard

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't judge me because I'm stupid. Don't judge me because I'm, mean. Don't judge me because I'm weird. Don't judge me for mistakes. Because…

— Isaiah Harden (Me