2098 Quotations Found

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Author: Aristotle | Subject: Education | Scholarship

Dignity exists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Author: Aristotle | Subject: Life & Society

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Author: Carl Gustav Jung | Subject: Personal Improvement

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable.

Author: Pat Conroy | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Author: Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

Author: David Stevens | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Intelligence | Knowledge

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Author: Earl Gray Stevens | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Adversity will make the strong stronger and the weak weaker.

Author: Cus D’Amato | Subject: Life & Society

It’s not art if the world (or at least a tiny portion of it) isn’t transformed in some way. And it’s not art if it’s not generous. And most of all, it’s not art if there’s no risk. The risk isn’t the risk of financial ruin (though that might be part of it). No, the risk is the risk of rejection. Of puzzlement. Of stasis. … [ Read more ]

Author: Seth Godin | Subject: Art

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Author: Charles Bukowski | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a difference with what you have it expands.

Author: Lynne Twist | Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Author: Marcus Aurelius | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your character or nature just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

Author: Derek Sivers | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.

Author: Charles H. Spurgeon | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Author: Charles H. Spurgeon | Subject: Personal Improvement

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Author: Thomas Carlyle | Subject: Personal Improvement

Conservatism-under-liberalism should defend human goods that are threatened by liberal ideas taken to extremes. The family, when liberal freedom becomes a corrosive hyper-individualism. Traditional religion, when liberal toleration becomes a militant and superstitious secularism. Local community and local knowledge, against expert certainty and bureaucratic centralization. Artistic and intellectual greatness, when democratic taste turns philistine or liberal intellectuals become apparatchiks. The individual talent of the entrepreneur … [ Read more ]

Author: Ross Douthat | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement

In a world marked by constant change, the only security is your ability to produce something of value for your fellow man, and your only guarantee of happiness is your joy in producing it.

Author: William J. Reilly | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind. Study the biographies of those who have built great fortunes, and you will learn that money came to them after they had produced or discovered something.

Author: William J. Reilly | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Personal Improvement