Quotes 661 till 680 of 13894.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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Psychiatrist: A man who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks you for nothing.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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