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It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
Author: Earl Camden
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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Author: Robin G. Collingwood
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He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
Author: William Drummond
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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Author: W. N. Ewer
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.
Author: Frank Hague
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Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Author: Robert Doisneau
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
Author: Milan Kundera
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Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.
Author: Canon Lindsay Dewar
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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
Author: Ralph J. Cudworth
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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Author: David Fasold
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Author: John Cassis
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If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
Author: David Eccles
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Author: Vera Johnson
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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Author: Elias Canetti
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It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.
Author: Arthur Stanley Eddington
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Author: Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Author: Alexander Herzen
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Author: Robert Hewison
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Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
Author: Frederick (carl) Frieseke
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Author: Michael Korda
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Author: Felix Frankfurter
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Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
Author: S. W. Duffield
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No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Author: Jean Paul
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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
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Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Author: Penelope Keith
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It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
Author: Sherrill Brown
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The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Author: Harlan Ellison
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The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
Author: John King Fairbank
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Author: Thomas à Kempis
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Author: Daisy Ashford
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Author: Odysseus Elytis
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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Author: Ernest Dimnet
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Author: Walter Prager
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
Author: Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Author: Jules De Gautier
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Author: Walter Lippmann
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Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
Author: John Sales
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Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
Author: Henri De Lubac
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Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
Author: Ted W. Engstrom
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I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing.
Author: Michelle Mcgann
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All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
Author: Peter M. Leschak
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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Author: Ernest Benn
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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Author: Leon Blum
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