Quotes 5101 till 5120 of 6634.
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Source: Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864 -
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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