Altruism Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altruism Cynicism Fellow Making Making Present Opinion Present Opinions Prig Prig Fellow
I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Being who you are means owning your own mind, having likes and dislikes, opinions that are your own. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader. — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“...of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
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