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Quotes Tokoh Dunia
Quotes Tokoh Dunia
Quotes Tokoh Dunia
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more
you beat them, the more tender they become.
It may well be doubted whether humaningenuity can construct an enigma…
which humaningenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely
horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only
at night.
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is
about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow–You
are not wrong who deemThat my dayshave been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a
night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or
seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not
the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those
we havepersonality and emotionknow what it means towant to escape from these things.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the
words, and never stopsat all.
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul,
Aristotle Quotes
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy
to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let
them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness
shut you in and thegreat ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore
with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to
happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was withoutcompass
or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. ‘Light Give me light’
was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of
a family fued.
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of
them all–the apathyof human beings.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
One’s life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have
to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and
years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Confucius Quotes
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in
others.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of
a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal
to our present?
When a man’s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable
him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He
who loved virtue wouldesteem nothing above it.
Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.
Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even
beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I
have made.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even
beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one
should listen to. . . . The feeling for thethings themselves, for reality, is more important
than the feeling for pictures.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and
the passers-by see only awisp of smoke.
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time,
insight into andunderstanding of many things.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Socrates Quotes
When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly
reprove thy faults.
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring
by your means muchinformation unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much
knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and,
moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own
conceit, instead of truly wise.
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you
know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would
like to have.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of
instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime
messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
He is richest who is content with the least.
Hippocrates Quotes
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of
opportunity.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter
ignorance.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
“Opposites are cures for opposites.
Walking is man’s best medicine.
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former-begets knowledge, the latter
ignorance.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how
by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of
social transition was not the stridentclamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of
the good people.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and
superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with
painstakingexcellence.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first
step.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the
history books are written infuture generations, the historians will have to pause and say,
There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the
veins of civilization.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the
need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression
and violence. Mankind must evolve for allhuman conflict a method which rejects
revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method islove.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.