Laurens Van der Post Famous Quotes
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
"The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves."
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Laurens Van der Post Quotations
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F Kennedy
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."
Max Nordau
"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is"
Alan B Watts
"People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful."
Unknown
Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony D Angelo
"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
Bertrand Russell
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
Blaise Pascal
"History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not."
Theodore Harold White
"Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)"
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow