Quotes 61 till 80 of 4584.
-
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
-
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
-
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
-
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
-
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The problem of pain p. 41 -
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
-
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
-
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
-
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
-
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
-
A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
-
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
-
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
-
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
-
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
-
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
-
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
-
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
-
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
All less-than-fulfilling famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 4)
