Quotes 541 till 560 of 795.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
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The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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