Quotes 2421 till 2440 of 12035.
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is...
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
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Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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