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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not (Which Quotes)
An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him (Which Quotes)
Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake (Which Quotes)
Partiality is, as we have seen, an accompaniment of the existence of interest, since this means sharing, partaking, taking sides in some movement. All the more reason, therefore, for an attitude of mind which actively welcomes suggestions and relevant information from all sides (Which Quotes)
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others (Which Quotes)
It is the honest lies we tell - statements factually correct and essentially deceiving - which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth (Which Quotes)
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong (Which Quotes)
The angler forgets most of the fish he catches, but he does not forget the streams and lakes in which they are caught (Which Quotes)
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network (Which Quotes)
Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise (Which Quotes)
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 (Which Quotes)
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving (Which Quotes)
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force (Which Quotes)
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character (Which Quotes)
For prudence, is but experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto (Which Quotes)
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different (Which Quotes)
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in (Which Quotes)
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired (Which Quotes)
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk (Which Quotes)
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works (Which Quotes)
Bodies like the Earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points (Which Quotes)
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that! (Which Quotes)
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy (Which Quotes)
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing (Which Quotes)
No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations (Which Quotes)
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to-day as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago (Which Quotes)
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed (Which Quotes)
Founding itself upon love, humility, and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is a logical consequence (Which Quotes)
Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo (Which Quotes)
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong (Which Quotes)