Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a… — David Jenkins Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such… — Lanza del Vasto Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image