"I cannot take back one word or action;……" — Charles Van Doren
"I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone."
—
Charles Van Doren
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
12 Quotes by Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren has 12 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
-
I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
-
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching…
-
Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far…
-
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe…
-
My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
-
I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
-
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
-
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
-
I never wanted to see another quiz show.
-
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
See all 12 quotes by Charles Van Doren »
More Action Quotes
This quote is filed under Action Quotes,
one of 8,300 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
-
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
-
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
-
Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
-
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
See all 8,300 Action Quotes »