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- Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles…
- Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a…
- Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people…
- The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear…
- Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get…
- And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its…
- The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but…
- Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
- The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of…
- If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for…
- Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
- Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us…
- The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully…
- Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster