Benno C Schmidt Jr Famous Quotes
"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
"Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention."
Benno C Schmidt Jr Quotations
"When we hold back on life, life holds us back."
Mary Manin Boggs
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop
"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
Dr
Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock."
Orson Welles
"Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'. (If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.)"
Assyrian Proverb
"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is."
Walt Whitman
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales