2099 Quotations Found

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Author: Bruce Lee | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Author: Henry Van Dyke | Subjects: Concepts, Gratitude, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings unless they are in the creative state of mind that is generally sensitive to the differences that always exist between the observed fact and any preconceived ideas, however noble, beautiful, and magnificent they may seem to be.

Author: David Bohm | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Author: Jim Rohn | Subject: Personal Improvement

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

Author: Leo Strauss | Subject: Philosophy

Almost anything you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

Author: David Foster Wallace | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Author: Penn Jillette | Subjects: Insight, Math & Science

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

Author: Charles Siebert | Subjects: Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology

Whenever a social system — a company, or in this case a larger group of mainstream institutions — is disrupted, and the leaders have not developed an inner capacity for curiosity, compassion, and courage, then you will tend to see a closing of the mind and the heart, and a fanatical expression of will. You will see the amplification of prejudice, an increase in public … [ Read more ]

Author: Otto Scharmer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Sociology | Anthropology

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Author: Marlene Dietrich | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.

Author: Seneca | Subjects: Concepts, Good & Evil, Gratitude, Personal Improvement

All great works suffer from and are saved by a gladsome blindness to what they ultimately demand of their creators.

Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Art, Insight, Literature | Arts

From its post-World War II genesis, modern white evangelicalism was more than just a movement for supposed Biblical and theological fidelity and purity. It also involved broader political commitments, including Christian nationalism, white racial purity, patriarchal families, laissez-faire capitalism, and virulent anti-statism—opposing intervention by the state into personal, social and economic affairs—only when it appears federal government support will upset the aforementioned social order.

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Author: Lerone A. Martin | Source: Futurity | Subjects: Politics & Public Policy, Religion

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

Author: Thucydides | Subjects: Life & Society, Military | War | Peace, Thought | Inquiry

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Author: L. Frank Baum | Subjects: Communication, Intelligence | Knowledge

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Author: Fred Rogers | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Relationships

If confidence men operate outside the law, it must be remembered that they are not much further outside than many of our pillars of society who go under names less sinister.

Author: David W. Maurer | Subjects: Law | Legal, Life & Society

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy