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 | "Youth itself is a talent ? a perishable talent." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the
future." | |
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Found in the topic Prophecy.
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| "Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a
sinner." | |
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Found in the topic Saint.
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| "Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we
do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new
can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic
dissatisfaction of the untalented." | |
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Found in the topic Original.
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| "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means
he uses to frighten you." | |
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Found in the topic Discovery.
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| "Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty
life." | |
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Found in the topic Hate.
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| "The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do
than in what we are free not to do." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is
inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their
birth as toys." | |
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Found in the topic Invention.
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| "The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on
the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is
older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped
less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is
the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness,
and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his
capacities." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the
"learned" find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists." | |
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Found in the topic Earth.
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| "They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They
ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune,
rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent
there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and
the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will
be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor." | |
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Found in the topic Talent.
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| "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question." | |
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Found in the topic Obvious.
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| "Rudeness is the weak man"s imitation of strength." | |
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Found in the topic Rudeness.
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| "We usually see only the things we are looking for so much so that we
sometimes see them where they are not." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves
only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner
judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need
people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are." | |
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Found in the topic Achievement.
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| "How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!" | |
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Found in the topic Sacrifice.
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| "The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost
always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville
points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs
that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The
translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least
likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the
nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the
marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with
passion as a midwife of action ? the ability to pass directly from thought
to action." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating
adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,
responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in
all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while
book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." | |
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Found in the topic Adolescence.
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| "It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts
the weak." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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