Chance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described.…

— Aleister Crowley

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind…

— Confucius

Conceit is what makes a little squirt thinks he is a fountain of knowledge.

— Anonymous

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

— Confucius

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

— Seneca the Younger

No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do…

— Dion Fortune

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

— Criss Jami

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

— Aesop

“He has the capacity to veer with every wind, or, stubbornly, to insert himself into some fantastically elaborated and irrational social institution only to…

— Loren Eiseley

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

— Napoleon Hill