● The eyes which are the
windows of the soul.
● But tell me, this physician of whom you
were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a
healer of the sick? [The Republic - Book
I ]
● The unexamined life is not worth
living.
● Beauty of style and harmony and grace
and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a
rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity
which is only a euphemism for folly.
● Everything that deceives may be
said to enchant.
● Wealth is the parent of luxury and
indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of
discontent.
● I have hardly ever known a
mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
● Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does
no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion
obtains no hold on the mind.
● Not one of them who took up in his
youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old
age faithful to his conviction.
● Death is not the worst that can
happen to men.
- Plato, (a classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates,
teacher of Aristotle, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of
the Academy in Athens.)
● Bad men live that they may eat and
drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
● There is only one good, knowledge, and
one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates
● Proper words in proper places, make
the true definition of a style.
● ..when a great genius appears in the
world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift
● In peace sons bury fathers, but in war
fathers bury sons.
● Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
● If a man insisted always on being
serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would
go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
●
It is better to be envied than pitied.
● Force has no place where there is need
of skill.
● Haste in every business brings
failures.
● When life is so burdensome death has
become a sought after refuge.
● Circumstances rule men; men do not
rule circumstances.
● It is better by noble boldness to run
the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to
remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
● I am bound to tell what I am told, but
not in every case to believe it.
● This is the bitterest pain among
men, to have much knowledge but no power.
- Herodotus
(484 BC- c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings
on the conflict between Greece and Persia)
● If in other sciences we should
arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it
behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in
mathematics.
- Roger Bacon
● Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
● If you plan on being anything less than you are
capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of
your life.
- Abraham Maslow
● A form of government that is not the
result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and
endeavors can never take root.
- Napoléon Bonaparte
● Passion often renders the most
clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish
man clever.
- François de La Rochefoucauld
● Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's
horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this
beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence,
drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed
civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not
been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more
advanced than it is now.
- Swami Vivekananda
● The way for a young man to rise, is to
improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any
body wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
● Men are often capable of greater things
than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of
credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
- Horace Walpole
● Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
● Outside intelligences, exploring the
Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to
enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0,
4 planets plus debris.
- Isaac Asimov
● History is more or less bunk. It's
tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the
present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is
the history we make today.
- Henry Ford
● Misfortune shows those who are not really
friends.
- Aristotle
● Remember that time is money.
-
Benjamin Franklin
● We absolutely must leave room for doubt or
there is no progress and no learning. There is no
learning without having to pose a question.
-
Richard Feynman
● One should examine oneself for a very long
time before thinking of condemning others.
- Molière
● A man is judged not by what he says or thinks
about himself, but by what he does.
- Lenin
● "All conditioned things are impermanent" —
when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
This is the path to purification.
- Dhammapada (one of the primary collections of teachings
attributed to Gautama Buddha)
● It is the common wonder of all men, how among
so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.
- T. E. Brown
● We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
● Every flatterer lives at the expense of
the person who listens to him.
- La Fontaine
● All happy families resemble one another, each
unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy
● To devote your life to the good of all and to
the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own
sake is not religion.
- Swami Vivekananda
● Victory attained by violence is tantamount to
a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi
● A person should not be too honest. Just as
straight trees are chopped-down first, honest people are taken
advantage of first.
- Chanakya (c.350 - c.275 BC) Indian political
strategist and writer, also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta)
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