Wise thoughts and quotes 5
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Cicero
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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
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A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Markus Zusak
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
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“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
J.K. Rowling
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I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
Roald Dahl
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Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
Chris Rock
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
Søren Kierkegaard
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If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
