Wisdom Quotes · Page 79

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“What should I do and where should I go? A thief has taken hold of my flesh!”

— Epic of Gilgamesh

“when god decided to invent everything he took one breath bigger than a circustent and everything began”

— E. E. Cummings

“Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.”

— Rollo May

“We must bring three parts in four of the treat along with us — In short we must be happy within — and then few things without us make much difference — This is my Shandean…”

— Laurence Sterne

“Opinion leads us by the ears, the eyes, — and, I had almost said, by the nose. It warps our understandings, confounds our judgments, dissipates experience and turns our passions…”

— Laurence Sterne

“Generosity and courage are associate virtues; and the character which possesses the former, must, in the nature of mental arrangements, be adorned with the latter.”

— Laurence Sterne

“I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing.”

— Ray Bradbury

“You must never receive a gift, ever, without returning the gift twice over.”

— Ray Bradbury

“We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”

— Paul Tillich

“Being a leader is an awesome responsibility. There are days when it can be frightening to know that the fate of the organization rests on your shoulders.”

— William H. McRaven

“Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.”

— William H. McRaven

“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third…”

— Dorothy Parker

“If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care.”

— Dorothy Parker

“It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The warrior is unique, he alone is the equal of many; Utu is unique, he alone is the equal of many.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“What matters it, that, all around, Danger, and guilt, and darkness lie, If but within our bosom's bound We hold a bright, untroubled sky, Warm with ten thousand mingled rays Of…”

— Emily Brontë

“I love those reformations that prevent revolutions, by keeping pace with the gradual progress of reason and knowledge.”

— Horace Walpole

“Bad men and poisonous plants are sometimes of superlative use in skilful hands.”

— Horace Walpole

“Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.”

— Anthony Burgess

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

— Anthony Burgess

“In a word, human life is more governed by fortune than by reason; is to be regarded more as a dull pastime than as a serious occupation; and is more influenced by particular…”

— David Hume

“Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit…”

— David Hume

“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation, — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth.”

— George MacDonald

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