Becoming Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot…

— Oliver Cromwell

The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it…

— Sigmund Freud

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never…

— John Keats

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.”

— Criss Jami

“If words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode…

— J.B. Phillips

“That’s just how my brain works: words of wisdom are produced at random intervals, and always in times of great despair.”

— Annabel den Dekker

“As I observe the lives of great individuals, I sense that the capacity of the brain is seemingly infinite. Wise men can become even…

— Russell M. Nelson

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember…

— Thomas Hobbes

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode…

— Anonymous

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he…

— Blaise Pascal