Ideals
"Don't
waste and spend your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to
dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals
alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth."
-
quoted
Ideas
"We
must treat ideas like they were baby fish. Throw thousands into the water.
Only a handful will survive - but that is plenty."
-
Anne Heywood
"To
have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands."
-
Anne Sophie Sweetchine
"Many
ideas grow better when transplanted into other minds than in one where
they sprang."
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ignorance
Illusion
"When
the illusion becomes real, the more desperate do you want it."
-
from the movie "Wall Street"
Immortality
"Immortality
is the genius to move others long after you have stopped moving."
-
Frank Rooney
Impatience
"Perhaps
there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience, we are
driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return."
-
Frank Kafka
Industry
"It
is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious
about?"
-
Henry Thoreau
Inordinate
Pride
"The
sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the
music of our own opinions."
-
Adlai Stevenson
Insults
"No
offered insult ever caused so deep a wound as tenderness expected and withheld."
-
J. Struther
"When
a simpleton abused him, Buddha listened in silence, but when the man had
finished, Buddha asked him, "Son, if a man declines a present made to him,
to whom would it belong?" The man answered, "To him who offered
it." "My son," said Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse, and request
you keep it for yourself." "
-
Will Durant
Intellectuals
& Intelleqentia
The
difference between intellectuals and the intelleqentia is this:
"The
intelleqentia are always out of touch with the common man, the intellectuals
are not. The intelleqentia seek to impress, the intellectuals seek to help."
-
Fulton Sheen
Intelligence
"Society
has always depended on individuals for those creative achievements of mind
and spirit that have guided it along the path of civilization, the spark
from heaven falls. Who picks it up? The crowd? Never. The individual?
Always. It is he alone as artist, scholar, scientist, spiritual leader
or statesman who stands nearest to the source of life and transmits its
essence to his fellowman. Wisdom and virtue cannot be forced from a crowd
as eggs from chicken under electric lights. There is no such thing as general
intelligence. There is only individual intelligence communicating itself
to other individual intelligence and there is no such thing as public morality.
There is only a composite of private morality."
-
A. Whitney Griswold
"The
man who uses his brains always controls the man who uses only his hands."
-
AGP
"Anyone
who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence;
he is using his memory."
-
Leonardo da Vinci
Intolerance
"Intolerance
is a form of egoism and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."
-
quoted
Jail
"Jail
is jail for thieves. For me, it is a temple."
-
Mahatma Ghandi
Jealousy
"Jealousy
is the most radical, primeval and naked form of admiration."
-
Robert Louis Stevenson
Judgment
"I
pass judgment not on those who live under dictatorship and cannot speak,
but on those who live in freedom and fail to do so."
-
M. Sperber
"The
true test of independent judgment is to be able to dislike someone who
admires us and to admire someone who dislikes us."
-
Sydney J. Harris
Justice
The
difference between justice & vengeance:
"Vengeance
is a private reprisal; Justice comes from an impartial authority."
-
from a TIME Book Review
"When
justice is served, everybody wins.'
-
from a TV movie
"Justice
is not only to be done. It has to be seen when done."
-
from Black Arrow
"If
we all live by an "eye for an eye" kind of justice, the whole world will
be blind."
-
Ghandi
"Man's
capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to
injustice makes democracy necessary."
-
Reinhold Niebuhr
Kindness
"You
can never do kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will
be too late."
-
Anonymous
"One
of the most difficult things to give is kindness, it is usually returned."
-
Cort Fline
"The
pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives
us that we are not altogether worthless."
-
Eric Hoffer
"Kindness
in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love."
-
Lao Tze
"Too
often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential of turning a life around."
-
Leo Buscaglia
"Kind
words cost so little but are worth so much! To speak ill of others is a
dishonest way of praising ourselves. If you can't say good and encouraging
words, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever
thing to say."
-
Will Durant
Kings
& Commoners
On
the ultimate difference between kings and commoners:
"Alexander
the Great, seeing Diogenes looking attentively at a parcel of human bones,
asked the philosopher what he was looking for. Diogenes replied: 'That
which I cannot find - the difference between your father's bones and those
of his slaves.' "
-
Plutarch
Knowledge
"Not
ignorance but the ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge."
-
Alfred North
"The
test of a truly educated man is what he is, what he thinks, what his mind
absorbs or dreams or creates when he is alone."
-
Donald K. David
The
difference between knowledge & belief:
"To
know things as they are is better than to believe in things as they seem."
-
Tom Wicker
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