Quotes 21 till 40 of 1789.
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A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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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.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
Source: Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43 -
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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