Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
Those who own the country ought to govern it.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own – we will defend it or perish.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.
It’s really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won’t. But I’m strong enough to deal with that. I own that I’m freakish in my way.
Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Don’t believe your own publicity. You can’t; you’ll start thinking that you’re better than you are.
You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
I’m a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I’m not that eccentric in real life – and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people’s faces.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
I ain’t follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It’s just grindin’, ya feel me? You just gotta grind.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Everyone thinks they’re the hero in their own story.
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.
I got my own back.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
I’ve chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
This above all; to thine own self be true.
