Quotes 1 till 20 of 2072.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
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