Quotes 7801 till 7820 of 8624.
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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
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What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
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What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
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What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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What is the worth of any thing,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?Learning 23 -
What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 120
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