Famous Quotes Name T

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep.

Great anger is more destructive than the sword

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.

The more you know, the less you understand.

It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

The journey is the reward.

The journey is the reward.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

When you want something, it's not that easy. You have to know what you want and keep going for it.