Which Quotes

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.