Quotes 641 till 660 of 795.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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The true success is the person who invented himself.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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The ultimate test of the laughing instinct is that a man should always be ready to laugh at himself.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert p. 532 -
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
On War (1832) -
There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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