May Quotes - Page 21

• Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Space, Shooting Up

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• Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 9, l. 13

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• Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
  Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.

  Octavia Butler

  Mean, Civilization, Intelligence

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligence, Courses

  Attributed in "The Times book of quotations" by Philip Howard, (p. 84), 2000.

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• Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Thinking, Creating

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• What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Strong, Differences

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• Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

  Claudius Buchanan

  Knowledge, Men, Good Man

  Claudius Buchanan (1811). “Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia”, p.64

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• Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

  Arthur Helps

  Knowledge, Toil, Looks

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life”, p.23

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• It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Learning, Knowledge

  "Lectures on Education".

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• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

  Aristotle

  Knowledge, Errors, Hands

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Knowledge, Ideas, Soul

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Book by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Grief, Knowledge, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.

  William Mountford

  Christian, Knowledge, Mean

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.222

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• Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
  Against her beauty? May she mix
  With men and prosper! Who shall fix
  Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowledge, Men, Her Beauty

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Knowledge, Men, Civilization

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 2: "The Creative Power of a Free Civilization", 1960.

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• There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

  Daniel Dennett

  Knowledge, Limits, Guides

  "Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series)". Book by Daniel Dennett, June 27, 1996.

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• He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Learning, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Learning, Order, Understanding

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• People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Teaching, People, Intellectual

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• Life - give me life until the end,
  That at the very top of being,
  The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
  Out of the reddest hell of the fight
  I may be snatched and flung
  Into the everlasting lull,
  The immortal, incommunicable dream.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Dream, Fighting

  William Ernest Henley (1893). “London Voluntaries ; The Song of the Sword, and Other Verses”, London : D. Nutt

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• You know how little while we have to stay,
  And, once departed, may return no more.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Departed, Return

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.121, University of Virginia Press

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• Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

  P. L. Travers

  Life, Hero, Feet

  "The World of the Hero". Book by P. L. Travers, 1976.

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• Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
  To live and die is all we have to do.

  John Denham

  Life, Live Well, Wells

  Sir John Denham (1779). “The poetical works of Sir John Denham: With the life of the author”

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• Man cannot call the brimming instant back;
  Time's an affair of instants spun to days;
  If man must make an instant gold, or black,
  Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways.
  Life may be duller for an instant's blaze.
  Life's an affair of instants spun to years,
  Instants are only cause of all these tears.

  John Masefield

  Life, Men, Years

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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