Quotes
Quotes about Pen
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
What we see depends on mainly what we look for.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
To hold and fill to overflowing Is not as good as to stop in time. Sharpen a knife-edge to its very sharpest, And the edge will not last long.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
