31 quotes found
“The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.”
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.”
“Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”
“I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.”
“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”
“I loved him.I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I knew my name or the color of the sky or any fact written in a book.Could he feel it, too?Maxon broke the ...”
“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”
“There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though...”
“Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.”
“Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the ...”
