Thursday 28 February 2013

Luck - Quotes

A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. Its seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. Its seeing what other people dont see and pursuing that vision. - Howard Schultz

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy. - Aurelius

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. - Juvenal

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year. - Edgar Watson Howe

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. - Henry Ward Beecher

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. - James A Garfield

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit. - Ambrose Bierce

A sharp eye is the mother of good luck. - Ken Alstad

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side. - Margi Preus

All psychological studies indicate that a person's luck is influenced by his state of mind. - June Sawyer

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. - Unknown

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck. - Franklin Jones

Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. - Joan Lowery Nixon

Chance may throw a fortune into anyone’s lap, but what is termed luck usually is the fruit of shrewdness and persistency. - Baltasar Gracian

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration. - Peter Redgrove

Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. - Og Mandino

Good and bad luck is but a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. The prudent, the considerate, the circumspect, or the industrious, seldom complain of their ill-luck; it is only the grumbler, the idler, and the gambler who protest against the ills of misfortune. - Chatfield

Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope. - Sakura Tsukuba

Good luck doesn't last forever. - Roman Proverb

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others. - Jackie Stewart

Good luck is often with the man who does not include it in his plans. - Unknown

Good luck is the twin brother of hard work. - Unknown

Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. - Alice Hoffman

I always think luck's a bit like splitting a log. You're much more likely to succeed if you read the grain and look for flaw-lines. - K. J. Parker

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck; a good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. - Joseph Addison

Ive found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. - Brian Tracy

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Unknown 

If lucky, be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond. - Ausonius

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. - Samuel Smiles

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. - Unknown

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. - Baltasar Gracian

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to ‘make’ your luck by being always prepared. - Michael Korda

Luck is good planning, carefully executed. - Unknown

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. - E. B. White

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. - Unknown

Luck is the crossroads where preparation and opportunity meet. - Unknown

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca

Luck is what you have left over after you give one hundred percent. - Langston Coleman

Luck may win a few deals, but in the long run it is the better player who scores the highest. - Unknown

Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune. - John Angell James

Lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both. - Cinda Williams Chima

Most of the folks I know who have good luck seem to have good judgment too. - Unknown

Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me. - John Heywood

Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air. - James Vila Blake 

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. - James Ellis

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. - Anne Tyler

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - Garrison Keillor

Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position. - William Matthews

That's all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up – look at the respective piles. There's nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or that, it just happens. - William Boyd

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but taken them – besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor. - E. H. Chapin

The concept of luck is actually quite complex and thus should not be dismissed as simply superstition or sloppy thinking. In a basic sense, luck is synonymous with chance. When individuals presume the workings of luck in their lives, though, they often "spin" the effects of luck to be positive or negative, as in having good luck or bad luck. Furthermore, although the presumption of luck (or chance) implies that events are beyond human control, much of the preoccupation with luck involves performing actions that are hoped to influence (namely improve) luck. - Jason Slone 

The devil's children have the devil's luck. - English Proverb

The difference between bad luck and good luck is the difference in our attitude toward circumstances and events. - Adelaide Hensley

The more you know the better your luck. - Unknown

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. - Channing Pollock

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. - Wilson Mizner

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why. - Kurt Vonnegut

Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging. - English Proverb

There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn to their own disadvantage. - Rochefoucauld

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. - Balthasar Gracian

There is no man whom luck or fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. - Cardinal Imperiali 

There is no substitute for incomprehensible good luck. - Unknown

There may be luck in getting a good job – but theres no luck in keeping it. - J. Ogden Armour 
Trust your luck ... but don't forget to put out your nets! - Lloyd Alexander

When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her. - Spanish Proverb

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. - Donald Trump

You can create y our own luck just like a cloud can create its own rain. You create your own luck by the way you act, think, feel, and talk. If these ingredients you're using to create your luck are distorted, then what will follow is bad luck all the way, like a thunderstorm. But if you're especially careful to watch how you think, then the sweet aroma of good luck will rain upon you almost everywhere you go. - Mark Benedict

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you. - Garrison Keillor

You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky.... To hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you are lucky. - Tennessee Williams

You just dont luck into things as much as youd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether its friendships or opportunities. - Eleanor Roosevelt

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. - Cormac McCarthy

You never know your luck till the wheel stops. - Ken ALstad

Wednesday 27 February 2013

The Scientific Power Of Thought


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Lust - Quotes

As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her. - Daniel Cawdray

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind. - Zoroaster

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin ... a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary. - C. Joybell C.

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace. - St. Basil

Lust is a desire against reason, a furious and unbridled appetite, which killeth all good notions in man's mind, and leaveth no place for virtue. - Thomas Jevon

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. - Plato

Lust is never satisfied, any more than fire is satisfied with fuel, or the main ocean with receiving the rivers, or the empire of death with the dying of men and animals. - W. Alexander

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality. - J. Usher

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. - Frederick Buechnere

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ... ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. - Marquis de Sade

Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows. - B. Holyday

Lust weakens both body and mind. - Pythagoras

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. - Claudian

Lust-bred diseases rot thee. - John Donne

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. - Marquis de Sade

Nature is content with little; grace with less; lust with nothing. - Mathew Henry

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Wickedness is nourished by lust. - Aristotle
















Tuesday 26 February 2013

Quote Worthy


The art of loving yourself begins with self-acceptance. They are essentially the same. You begin loving yourself when you stop rejecting yourself. - John Ruskan

It is not the strongest of the species of that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. - Robert G Ingersoll

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being by raising your consciousness to higher levels. - Osho

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires. - Jim Rohn

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. - Haruki Murakami

Remember in the depth and even the agony of despondency, that very shortly you are to feel well again. - Abraham Lincoln

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion, or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? - Buddha

Monday 25 February 2013

His Last Request


Mary Clancy goes up to Father O’Grady after his Sunday morning service, and she is in tears.

He says, “So what’s bothering you, dear?”

She says, “Oh, Father, I’ve got terrible news. My husband passed away last night.”

The priest says, “Oh, Mary, that’s terrible. Tell me, Mary, did he have any last requests?”

She says, “That he did, Father...”

The priest says, “What did he ask, Mary?”

She says, “He said, ‘Please, Mary, put down the Goddamn gun...’”

Sunday 24 February 2013

Idleness - Quotes

Idleness buries a man alive. - John Thornton

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. - Jeremy Collier

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. - Hosea Ballou

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. - Albert Camus

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. - Benjamin Franklin

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. - Cesare Pavese

Idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them – their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is better to be idle than employed in ill. - Norman MacDonald

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people dont care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. - Bishop Robert South

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. - Thomas Carlyle

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is incapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions. - Joseph Hall

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. - George S. Hilliard

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. - George MacDonald 

Saturday 23 February 2013

Kindness - Quotes

A little spark of kindness can put a colossal burst of sunshine into someone’s life. - Unknown

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. - Amelia Earhar

A word of kindness is better than a fat pie. - Russian Proverb

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know. - Unknown

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Be the reason someone smiles today. Kindness is beautiful. - Unknown

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer

Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother with a cheerful face. - Unknown

Do not underestimate a moment of kindness. It has the power to change lives in ways you may never know. - Unknown

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. - George Sand

How much easier it is to act kindly and naturally to our fellow men, and even to the domestic, useful and faithful animals about us, than to effect a rude and boisterous demeanour, which is sure not only to make others despise us, but on reflection to cause us to despise ourselves. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

If you can't be kind, be quiet. - Unknown

If you want to live in a world of peace, encourage kindness, both in yourself and in those around you. - Ayamanatara

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. - Unknown

In the end only kindness matters. - Jim Garnett

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love. - Unknown

It is a shallow mind that suspects or rejects an offered kindness because it is unable to discover the motive. - Arthur Helps

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. - Unknown

Kindness always happens at the beginning of a smile. - Robert Clancy

Kindness and courtesy can make an average person superior; indifference and lack of concern can make a superior person average. - Unknown

Kindness begets kindness. - Unknown

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. - Eric Hoffer

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self. - Jean Maalouf

Kindness comes back, like a boomerang, to those who are kind. Perhaps its return takes years. Perhaps the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost. - John Marks Templeton

Kindness comes in all sizes. Sometimes it is only a little thing we give – a trifle, a smile, a piece of fruit, a hug, and a kind word. If it is given willingly, the kindness is doubled. - Syrus

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert

Kindness doesn’t take much effort, just a choice within your heart. - Robert Clancy

Kindness has a beautiful way of reaching down into a weary heart and making it shine like the rising sun. - Unknow

Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world. - Jean Maalouf

Kindness in heart much better than gold in bank. - Charlie Chan

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. - Walter Savage Landor

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, and kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu

Kindness is a bottomless fountain – not a river running outward. True kindness cannot be given away, it can only be shared; and in order to share the grace of kindness, we need to partake of it as well. - Will Glennon

Kindness is a clear perennial spring, rising up from a heart replete with universal philanthropy, holding on its way, unimpeded by prejudices or partialities, and distributing its benefits alike upon all that it meets with in its course. - John Angell James

Kindness is a graceful deed done without the other person's having to request it. - Sheldon B. Stephenson

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do. - Emanuel Swedenborg

Kindness is an instinctive act, but that impulse must be nurtured, not merely by positive external feedback, but also by internal decision. Make kindness your guiding principle and you will not go wrong. Acknowledge to yourself each time you do something out of kindness and allow yourself to feel good about it so that, as you go forward, more and more of your acts will be acts rooted in kindness. - Ayamantara

Kindness is helpful to the happiness of both recipient and giver. Who does not feel happier on showing kindness to others, and who does not feel happier on receiving the manifestation of kindness? Deeds of kindness shown in the little things of life constitute man's chief happiness. Many are not able to do any great things for others, but all can find abundant opportunity of showing little deeds of kindness which will add much to the happiness of mankind. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubi

Kindness is closely linked with happiness: the kinder you are to others, the happier you will be. - Mary Jaksch

Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers. - Croft M. Pentz

Kindness is more persuasive than force. - Aesop

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. - C. Neil Strait

Kindness is more binding than a loan. - Chinese Proverb

Kindness is never a flaw. - Unknown

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty. - Frederick Greenwood

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. - Honore de Balzac

Kindness is the currency of our hearts, the only currency that can never be subtracted and never be balanced in anyone's ledgers. We choose to be kind because it is the way we want to live our lives, not because we will be rewarded in some way. When we start to keep score, we become closed-hearted: I'm not doing anything nice until someone does something good for me. Our acts of kindness are whole unto themselves. They require no acknowledgement and no reward, for the act itself returns us once again to the heart of our own humanity. - Will Glennon

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road. - James L. Gordon

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain


Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return. - Lewis B. Smedes

Kindness is the spirit in which we are to live. Our lives are never full and abundant until the spirit of kindness is our ordinary way of living. - Sheldon B. Stephenson

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. - James L. Gordon

Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen – all heart to feel – all eye to examine and to weep – all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away. - John Angell James

Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one. - Frederick W. Faber

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe. - Dawna Markova

Kindness is, of the bounteous tree, which we all so oft do seek to become sustained by. - Mark Anthony

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him. - Frank A. Clark

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. - Mencius

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes. - Madame Swetchine

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. - Talmud

Never regret the right things you’ve done, even for the wrong persons. Kindness should be universal, not selective. - Unknown

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing. - Lewis F. Korns

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness – it is usually returned. - Cort R. Flint

Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness. - Lewis F. Korns

Real kindness seeks no return. - Tiruvalluvar

That best portion of a good mans life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. - Anita Roddick

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others. - Wayne Dyer

The most beautiful thing a human being can do is help another human being. Kindness doesn’t cost a thing. - Cladia Olivares

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. - Oscar Wilde


The true and noble way to kill a foe, is not to kill him; you, with kindness, may so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he's slain. - Charles Aleyn

There's no human problem that can't be solved by kindness. - Edward Morgan

There’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. - Scott Raymond Adams

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson. - Arthur Lynch

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. - Robert Brault

Unfading are the gardens of kindness. - Greek Proverb

We seem to feel keenest the kindness that comes from one who is generally cruel. - Lewis F. Korns

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whatever you sow in the way of kindness and joy, you will regain many times over, for in kindness, to give is to gain. - Unknown

Wherever there is a human being, there is the opportunity for a kindness. - Seneca

You are always given the opportunity to make someone feel appreciated. It makes a world of difference to someone who feels empty or ignored. When it comes to kindness, nothing is ever small. - Dodinsky

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. - Publilius Syrus

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday 22 February 2013

Quote Worthy


The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat. - Jane Wagner

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. - Arthur F. Lenenhan

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. - Basho

The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those living a lie. - Gaskin Jr

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. - Seneca

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. - Lyndon Baines Johnson

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man. - Seneca
   
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift. - Franklin Roosevelt

Kings - Quotes

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn. - Alexander Pope
All kings are foes of all the men they rule. - Hortense Flexner

If the king is pious, the subjects become so; but if the king is vicious, the subjects become the same. If he be indifferent to both (virtue and vice), then they too bear the same character. In short, as is the king so are his subjects. - Chanakya

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. - Fulke Greville

Kiss / Kissing - Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is like a window into someone's inner thoughts. You can sense the mood of the person you're kissing. You can often tell how they really feel about you from a kiss. Someone who really cares for you will not kiss you the same way as someone who is just there for sex. - William Cane

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one. - Guy De Maupassant

A man may conquer with a sword, but he can be conquered with a kiss. - Pano George Karkanis

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. - Beth Obedoza

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. - Jarod Kintz

Thursday 21 February 2013

Knowledge - Quotes

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. - Kahlil Gibran

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. - Michael Garrett Marino

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. - George Gurdjieff

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition. - Charles Lamb

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun – likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game. - Austin O’Malley

Acquiring knowledge is not an end in itself, but only a means to an end. Knowledge without purpose can be a destructive tool. - Unknown

All knowledge is sacred, but it should not be secret. - Susan Cooper

All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. - T. S. Eliot

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. - Leonardo da Vinci

All study reveals a personal vacuum, which knowledge alone can fill. - Validivar

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self-knowledge. - Bruce Lee

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. - Carl Jung

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

As knowledge advances, as the secrets of nature are explored and revealed, the more aware are we that we live in a mysterious universe.  - Unknown

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. - Charles Morgan

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. - Albert Einstein

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. - Albert Schweitzer

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. - Margaret Atwood

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. - Bhagavad Gita

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. - Charles de Lint

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

Do not think that the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice non-attachment from your views in order to be open to receive other’s viewpoints. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times. - Thich Hnat Hanh

Doubt is the key to knowledge. - Iranian Proverb

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas Huxley

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected. - Horace Mann

Having a little knowledge of a subject is liken to seeing a ‘tree’ or ‘a few trees’ of a forest. It is dangerous to assume that what you saw represents the ‘whole forest’! - Unknown

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! - Sophocles

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human. - Tim Lebbon

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. - Confucius

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas Huxley

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

If you are truly wise, you will conceal your knowledge from the world, and let every fool think himself your superior, especially if you have anything to gain by him; for envy is the strongest passion of the weak, and mediocrity is the hot-bed on which all the meaner passions flourish. - Charles William Day

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. - Thomas Fuller

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth. - Kahlil Gibran

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. - Charles Caleb Colton 

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. - Anthony D'Angelo

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. - Neil Gaiman

Information is not knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. - Aristotle

It does not make much difference what a person studies – all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned. - Elbert Hubbard

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. - Thomas Sowell

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly, there is no Virtue without Knowledge. - Benjamin Whichcote

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. - Dan Brown

Knowledge has no value unless you use and share it. - Unknown

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. - Peter Drucker

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. - Phillip Chesterfield

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user. - Dan Brown

Knowledge is an antidote to fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Frank Herbert

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. - Horace Mann

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. - George Washington

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise – even in their own field. - Isaac Asimov

Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs, and the mind of man is like a bucket that is dropped into it. He will get as much as he can assimilate.K. Sri Dhammananda

Knowledge is like a rare gem; the more facets it has, the greater its brilliance. - Validivar

Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves. - Josh Billings

Knowledge is meant for sharing. The goodness multiplies when it is shared with people and diminishes when kept to oneself. - Unknown

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. - Daniel J. Boorstin 

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. - Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. - Robin Morgan

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. - Joseph Addison

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. - Orlando A. Battista 

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. - Sigmund Freud

Knowledge is the key to a high path. Knowledge is that which brings calmness and peace to life, which renders man indifferent to the storms of the phenomenal world. - Unknown

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. - Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. - Charles Colton 

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. - Joseph Addison

Knowledge itself is power. - Francis Bacon

Knowledge of the world depends on the power of drawing general inferences from individual examples; and he is the most likely to be correct who has the greatest number of facts at his command. - Charles William Day

Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it. - Edward Counsel

Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries. There is no discovery so limited as not to illuminate something beyond itself. - John Tyndall

Knowledge paves the road to riches – when you know which road to take. - Unknown

Knowledge shuts a man's mouth. - Erwin Sylvanus

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. - Claire Fagin

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James Madison

Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian. - Wellins Calcott

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Homer

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom – and that is the ultimate virtue. - Unknown

Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. - François Rabelais

Knowledge without deep comprehension, imagination and compassion is just a more complex form of ignorance. We need to shift paradigms, to grow wiser, all of us, especially the dominant cultures and civilizations. We are good at building machines, because we have learned to think mechanistically. Such thinking got us to the moon, but it’s never going to solve the social and ecological problems that it helped to create. - Christopher Chase

Knowledge, without common sense, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence. - Austin Farrar

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. - Austin O’Malley

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. - Lord Chesterfield Stanhope

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson

Men have hunger, sleep, fear and carnal intercourse in common with the lower animals. It is only knowledge that a man has more than they. Those men who have not it may be regarded as beasts. - Chanakya

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. - Chuang Tzu

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Sandra Carey

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. - Lucius Seneca

New knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. - Stephen King

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience. - John Locke

No matter what else, we can be daily grateful we have been put in touch with knowledge, for its source is inexhaustible. - Unknown

No thief, however skilful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. - L. Frank Baum

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. - Kahlil Gibran

Practically all knowledge resolves itself into four forms: the knowledge of what to do, how to do, and when to do, and of what not to do. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Rare knowledge, like gold, must be dug for; but in scholarly tomes, not soil! - Validivar

Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. - Confucius

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, and, thought for. - Thomas Arnold 

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. - Wendell Phillips

Self-knowledge is worth seeking by virtue of its being knowledge and not by virtue of its pertaining to self. - Unknown

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. - Dr. Robert Anthony

That is the beginning of knowledge – the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge; which is the only Guardian of true liberty. - James Madison

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. - Rumi

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him. - Robert Penn Warren

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. - Confucius

The function of knowledge is to transcend earthly experience, not to wallow in it. - Susan Hubbard

The further knowledge advances, the nearer we come to the unfathomable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking

The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.  Henry Miller

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. - Hosea Ballou

The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost. - Edward Counsel

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman

The misapplication of our knowledge is, in general, more injurious to our happiness and interest, than either the privations of ignorance, or the disqualifications of inexperience. - Norman MacDonald

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know ones own mind. - Francis Herbert Bradley

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. - John Locke

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. - Fred Adler

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. - Anais Nin

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. - Marcel Proust

The true method of knowledge is experiment. - William Blake 

The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. - Sri Aurobindo

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. - Joseph Addison

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. - Bertolt Brecht

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. - Denis Diderot

There is a simple answer to the problems that you face today. It is to be found in knowledge. Yet, to find Knowledge you must become still and observant and learn to disengage from fear and anxiety. - Unknown

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. - Isaac Asimov

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. - Herodotus

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. those who predict, don't have knowledge. - Lao Tzu

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. - The Buddha

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. - Benjamin Franklin

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. - Maria Mitchell

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. - John Quincy Adams

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. - Socrates

To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes. - Benjamin Whichcote

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind. - Sergey Brin

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. - Anne Rice

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. - Michel de Montaigne

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know. - Albert Einstein

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body. - Henry Ward Beecher

We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. - Charles Colton 

We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. - Rutherford D. Rogers

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw

When a mans knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. - Herbert Spencer

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter. - Henry Parry Liddon

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge. - Confucius

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it. Unknown

Wonder is the desire of knowledge. - Thomas Aquinas

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.  Most people do. - Norman Juster

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. Henry Ford

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. - Saint Bernard