Jacques Maritain Famous Quotes
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
"We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain Quotations
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member."
Johathan Edwards
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
John Burroughs
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
David Bowie
"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true."
Debi Thomas
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying."
Irish Proverb
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
Vine Deloria Jr
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold