Quotes 221 till 240 of 1564.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 263
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