Matthew Arnold Famous Quotes
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
"But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will."
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle."
"Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."
"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold Quotations
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
Mark Twain
"Frank Wilma, I promise you whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat."
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established."
Confucius
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Plutarch
"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
"Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)"
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bernd Brecher
"Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines."
Richard Buckminster Fuller
"It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked."
Jill Peterson