Quotes 301 till 320 of 418.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941) -
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140 -
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
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