723 quotes found
“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.”
“ When you love you give meaning to this world. ”
“End of a matter is better than its beginning”
“Fools, their wisdom weak,are their own enemiesas they go through life,doing evilthat bearsbitter fruit.”
“I am not a wise man, nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce...”
“There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world....”
“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...”
“Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation de...”
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.”
“Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.”
“I am not the river I am the net.”
“We have all grown wiser.”
“He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the wo...”
“A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth andsun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you,like the sunset.”
“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place”
“Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.”
“The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.”
“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”
