Quotes
Quotes about World
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true.
A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
