Which Quotes

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.