Crafty Quote by Samuel Johnson

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if…

— Jerry Bridges

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Those who abdicate the empire of reason and permit their wills to wander in pursuit of reflections in the Astral Light, are subject to…

— Éliphas Lévi

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

— Francis Atterbury

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of…

— Virginia Woolf

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with…

— Samuel Johnson

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to be sure…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally produces dependence…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The fundamentalist impulse can creep up on a devotee in many ways. Devotion is the quickest path to the divine, but it also has…

— Sadhguru