Candor Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

— Maria Montessori

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature

— Mencius

“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

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think…

— George MacDonald

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness,…

— Han Fei

“They ascribe omnipotence and omniscience to him and I don't know what else; it seems to me so strange that they never credit him…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Programmed behavior cannot produce the level of spiritual development required to qualify one for eternal life. A necessary range of freedom and self-determination is…

— Dean L. Larsen

He who is humble is able to master his senses to remain rational. He who is arrogance loses control over situations and become irrational.

— Nethwadzi Phumudzo

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no…

— Marcus Aurelius

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection,…

— Walpola Rahula

“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just…

— Donald Van de Mark