Quote by Barbara Stanny

“it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything…

— George Orwell

“Without curiosity, we are unable to sustain our attention, we avoid risks, we abort challenging tasks, we compromise our intellectual development, we fail to…

— Todd Kashdan

“Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“In fact, because the unself-aware—which includes basically everybody—are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and…

— Lionel Shriver

“Our innate imbalances are further aggravated by practical demands. Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances…

— Alain de Botton

“Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all,…

— Sir Walter Raleigh

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

— Wendell Willkie

“Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are…

— Thomas Gilovich

“People often trip on other people's tolerance threshold.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“A superior personality will give us the ability to be cautious by giving us the knowledge and understanding to look before we leap.”

— Charlena Jackson

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

— LeCrae

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton