Learning Quote by Idries Shah

“There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.”

— Jane Austen

“He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself.”

— Lao Tzu

“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void…

— Jonathan Swift

“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as…

— Frederick Douglass

“Those who knows oneself has the privilege to restrain oneself. No longer easily depending on others.”

— Minoru Kawakami

“It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.”

— Honor Raconteur

“The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.”

— George Orwell

“Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?”

— Samuel Johnson

“That’s too much power for one man to wield, too much temptation. The easier we make it to kill, the less time there is…

— Lindsay Buroker

“But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to…

— Aeschylus