Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14 , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Great short quote and quotation by: Arnold Toynbee , English historian & historical philosopher (1889 – 1975)
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. Great short quote and quotation by: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976 ,
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Walter Scott , Scottish author & novelist […]
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. Great short quote and quotation by: Richard Whately ,
Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a biologist (1939)
To be an adult is to be alone. Great short quote and quotation by: Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a biologist (1939) , (1894 – 1977)
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see. Great short quote and quotation by: Hellen Keller ,