Quotes 21 till 40 of 127.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
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Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
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Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005) -
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative.
Debat in Parlement (31 May 1866) -
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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