Brightness Quote by Thales Download Open image “As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.” — Thales ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brightness Idleness Inspirational Labor
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing… — Robert Stawell Ball Copy Share Image
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding… — Thales Copy Share Image
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light. — Thales Copy Share Image
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not… — Thales Copy Share Image
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. — Thales Copy Share Image
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air — Thales Copy Share Image
Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that… — Thales Copy Share Image
What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. — Thales Copy Share Image
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it… — Thales Copy Share Image
God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself. — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton Copy Share Image
More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image