Quotes 21 till 40 of 3477.
-
In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
-
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
-
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
-
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
-
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
-
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
-
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
-
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
-
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
-
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
-
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
-
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
-
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
-
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
-
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
-
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
-
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.
All real-time famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 2)
