It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
... I know for sure, that the universe is wise and compassionate. The question then becomes: How can there be such brutality… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . .… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.… — John Hall Gladstone Copy Share Image
Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power… — Roger Pilon Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image