Quotes 4701 till 4720 of 6535.
-
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
-
The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
-
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.
-
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
-
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
-
The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
-
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 18 -
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
-
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
-
The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
-
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
-
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Source: Ethics -
The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
-
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
-
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
-
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
-
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
-
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
-
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
All all-white famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 236)
