“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 29 of 303
“When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.”
“Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.”
“When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.”
“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
“Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.”
“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
“To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.”
“Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
“The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons”
“Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.”
“It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.”
“As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.”
“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.”
“I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.”
“If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.”
“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”
“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
“It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.”