"If a man takes no thought about what……" — Confucius
"If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
More Distant Quotes
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world… — Michelle Bachelet
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving… — Hugo Black
- If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to… — Jack Black
- October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills… — Hal Borland
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors… — Jean de la Bruyere
- The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
- As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when… — Chanakya
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of… — William Ellery Channing
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran