2098 Quotations Found

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality

Every step forward in technological progress […] effectively transfers our dependence upon other human beings to dependence upon machines and, therefore, unavoidably constricts yet further the direct flow of understanding and sympathy between people.

Author: E.J. Mishan | Subjects: Communication, Life & Society, Math & Science

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Author: Maya Angelou | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

Author: Amelia Earhart | Subject: Life & Society

I believe that the charge of “Racism!” is a delicate weapon. Use it carelessly and it loses its power. Use it unjustly and it disappears when someone actually needs it. Use it when it doesn’t apply and it disrespects the people who have battled real racism–discrimination, segregation, slavery.

Author: Christopher Darden | Subject: Race Relations

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Author: Lao Tzu | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Author: Louis Pasteur | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Author: Francis Bacon | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Author: J.K. Rowling | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society

Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.

Author: Louis Brandeis | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Author: Dorothy Parker | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Author: Dalai Lama | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Do we accept the pain or reject it? The first choice is accepting the pain because I know in the long run it’s going to help me learn. I’m going to go in and I’m going to examine my decisions. I’m going to see where maybe I could’ve improved, where I could’ve made a better decision that would’ve increased the likelihood that I had a … [ Read more ]

Author: Annie Duke | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. This clutter is an unfortunate by-product of one of our greatest strengths as a species. We are unbridled pattern recognizers and … [ Read more ]

Author: David Dunning | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Psychology | Behavior

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Author: Mother Teresa | Subjects: Change, Concepts, Personal Improvement

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones. Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don’t give way to the seven, you’re patient. Then you’ll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

Author: James Clavell | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Gratitude, Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

Author: Indira Gandhi | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement