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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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Homer: Many shining actions...

Homer: Many shining actions...

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Franz Kafka: All human errors...

Franz Kafka: All human errors...

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is...

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Publilius Syrus: It is a...

Publilius Syrus: It is a...

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Robert Nathan: A man's family...

Robert Nathan: A man's family...

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his children from first to...

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Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he...

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Emile Durkheim: Man's characteristic privilege...

Emile Durkheim: Man's characteristic privilege...

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: True perfection is...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: True perfection is...

True perfection is achieved only by those who are prepared to destroy it. It is a by-product of...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: Crying is an...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Crying is an...

Crying is an act which one should perform only in private, for crying is a private way of groping for...

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Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Source: The Human...

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S I Hayakawa: Notice the difference...

S I Hayakawa: Notice the difference...

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens...

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Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what...

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Omar Bradley: This strategy would...

Omar Bradley: This strategy would...

This strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Simulated disorder postulates...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Simulated disorder postulates...

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates...

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Edward Rickenbacker: The four cornerstones...

Edward Rickenbacker: The four cornerstones...

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination,...

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Michel Foucault: The judges of...

Michel Foucault: The judges of...

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the...

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Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Source: Mr....

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