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 | "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others." | |
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Found in the topic Teach.
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| "To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means
of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase
their power." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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| "People never improve unless they look to some standard or example
higher or better than themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose
both." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them,
and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on
an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury
and sorrow and and ruin." | |
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Found in the topic Word.
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| "Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends
very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is
far from being so to another." | |
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Found in the topic Appreciation.
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| "Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it
is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety." | |
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Found in the topic Delay.
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| "To rule one"s anger is well; to prevent it is still better." | |
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Found in the topic Anger.
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| "Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth;
inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood." | |
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Found in the topic Accuracy.
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| "Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening
its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best
preventive and remedy." | |
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Found in the topic Anxiety.
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| "The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish
the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it
with the accumulation of others." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient,
all would be perfectly plain." | |
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Found in the topic Mystery.
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| "He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and
one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often
leads to ruinous error." | |
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Found in the topic Prejudice.
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| "Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and
inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith,
for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws?a thing which
can never be demonstrated." | |
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Found in the topic Science.
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| "We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we
keep. The dead very often have more power than the living." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes,
will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good
judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to
common life." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not
being driven." | |
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Found in the topic If.
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