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  • One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Independent Quotes , Men Quotes
  • It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Personality Quotes
  • I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes