Conditions Quote by Pliny the Younger Download Open image “That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.” — Pliny the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditions Doing nothing
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
