Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish,… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image
There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward;… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I had a lot of tough experiences at Bristol City. I came there for a few quid and was getting booed off… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-" He waved a hand. "Faeries.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things… — Mark Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
A deep, wise, and wonderful exploration of the Vedanta path for relationships both with yourself and with others. In this book, Shubhraji… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
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