Famous Quotes Name C

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

My own mind is my own church.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.