“Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 26 of 303
“All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
“I observe and remain silent.”
“Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.”
“The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.”
“We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.”
“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
“Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.”
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
“We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.”
“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”
“I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.”
“Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?”
“I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.”
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
“The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.”
“Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.”
“What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?”
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”