Doe Quotes - Page 97

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The three most important things a manager does: One is get the money. Two is always remember to get the money. Three is never forget to always remember to get the money.

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

To be a Pole does not mean just to speak Polish or to feel close to other Poles, but to value the Polish nation above all else ... A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad, and must accept every period of the nation's history, both strong and weak.

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

White does not exist in nature.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

It does not cost the world to save the planet.