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 | "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "I have often thought that the best way to define a man?s character
would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,
when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active
and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says:
"This is the real me!"" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." | |
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Found in the topic Know.
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| "He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as
surely as if he had failed." | |
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Found in the topic Opportunity.
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| "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the
consequences of any misfortune." | |
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Found in the topic Misfortunes.
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| "Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the
first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." | |
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Found in the topic Acceptance.
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| "The emotions aren"t always immediately subject to reason, but they
are always immediately subject to action." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be
appreciated." | |
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Found in the topic Appreciation.
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| "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one
thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture." | |
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Found in the topic Belief.
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| "They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first
lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." | |
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Found in the topic Confidence.
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| "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it,
from the moral point of view." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of
power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering
in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with
what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our
organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called
upon ? deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by
anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within
his limits." | |
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Found in the topic Limits.
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| "Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still
theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the
prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure,
passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." | |
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Found in the topic Mathematics.
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| "Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake." | |
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Found in the topic Comparison.
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| "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is
habitual but indecision." | |
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Found in the topic Indecision.
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| "Whenever two men meet there are really six people present. There is
each man as he sees himself, each man was the other sees him, and each man
as he really is." | |
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Found in the topic Meetings.
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| "Religion ... is a man?s total reaction upon life." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices." | |
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Found in the topic People.
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| "It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we
live al all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified
result is the only true thing that makes the result come true." | |
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Found in the topic Risk.
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