Kindness Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths.”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kindness Truth
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it… — John Dickson Carr Copy Share Image
“The world if full of illusions that are forced upon one's reality.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“We project an illusion of our ideals instead of seeing other people as they really are.” — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
“People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish to continue… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
“We know so little about ourselves that we often neglect the illusions we create to distract us from finding the answers we need.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“What's an illusion only becomes a reality once we allow those things to play on our intelligence.” — Shenica Coleman Copy Share Image
“Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.” — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything except evil… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
The smartest people are the ones who can bring a little bit of heaven to earth by using there kindness. — IsiahNunn Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
