Which Quotes

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.