Ends Quote by Plato

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as…

— James Allen

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

— Anonymous

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he…

— Prentice Mulford

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

— Maxwell Maltz

“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence…

— Dada Bhagwan

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split…

— Betty Smith

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any vital, individual, social, or moral process that goes in this direction and leads to the fulfillment of the person according to his own…

— Julius Evola

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A human being needs to endure something in order to learn to assess himself correctly, and not least to learn to think with others.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville