Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe… — Henry Harrower Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children,… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at… — Saint Peter Copy Share Image
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
