Quotes
Quotes about World
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
All the world's a stage,
In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.
Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else.
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world,
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
