Wisdom Quotes - Page 132

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.