Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“The good news is you already know that what you are doing now is not working, so what is the harm in… — Phil M Jones Copy Share Image
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile,… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“NOT CAUSING HARM obviously includes not killing or robbing or lying to people. It also includes not being aggressive—not being aggressive with… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do.… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It would help a lot of directors if they tried a little bit of acting, so they can understand what the process… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
“He who acts (with an ulterior purpose) does harm; he who takes hold of a thing (in the same way) loses his… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me. — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed. — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image