They - Quotes
They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
If you, If you can`t get people to like you, then you have to make them to respect you! And if they don`t respect you, then make them fear you!
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
Where people are baffled, they are often tempted to resort to mystical explanations.
Individuals don`t need to know where they are going; markets do. Leave people alone under a good structure and they will take care of things.
They say we can repress our memories. I wonder if we`re just keeping them safe somewhere. Because no matter how painful they are, they are our most valuable possessions. Our lives are built on our mistakes as much as our successes. They made us who we are.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
They teach you there`s a boundary line to music. But man, there`s no boundary line to art.
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they`re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.