Quotes by Scholars - Page 2

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Sir Philip Sidney
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
A.E. Housman
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Bateson
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary Bateson
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.
Anna Julia Cooper
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
If you want to die happily learn to live if you would live happily learn to die.
Celio Calcagnini
Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
Thomas Gray
The nearer the church the further from God.
Bishop Lancelot Andrewes
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure but low aim is a sin.
Benjamin Mays
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot Fringed pool Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Thomas Edward Brown
He does good to himself who does good to his friend.
Erasmus
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Michael Apostolius
That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Robert Burton
I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
Of two evils choose the least.
Erasmus
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Sir Philip Sidney
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Thomas Gray
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A.E. Housman
Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
Sir Richard Livingstone
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Kathleen Raine
If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
Geoffrey Hartman
Fortune favors the audacious.
Erasmus
Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.
Erasmus
That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.
Ulrich von Hutton
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Mary Bateson
One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
His shortcoming is his long staying.
Lewis L. Lewisohn
Beware of the man of one book.
Isaac D'Israeli
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens lets us see different locations, cities, departments of the armed forces. It also allows us to see three commonalities. (1) We are all different. I take such pleasure in seeing the diverse group we call the intelligence community. We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups.(2) This brings us to the second commonality…we are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans.(3) The third and most important commonality is the fact that we all bleed red. We are humankind.These are the bonds that unite us…bond us…make us better beings. I have not mentioned religion because my God allows me to respect other people’s belief. I just ask that as we work through this crisis that we hold dearly on to these three commonalities.The Director of National Intelligence
James M. Robinson
Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women
Reza Aslan
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
Evgeny Morozov
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
Erasmus
The division in human religion has always been between those who see the fall of man as a fall into freedom and those who see it as an act of defiance against the tyranny of an all-powerful father. But Adam and Eve were never in heaven; they were in the mud, and had to leave the only home they had ever known behind. And why? For choosing love and freedom over perpetual infancy and slavery of the will. Their sin was moral responsibility. Their reward is clear: "They have becomes gods--knowing good and evil." And for that, they were condemned to live in a world of discovery and choices.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth,Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzō Okakura
If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.
Ulrich von Hutten
Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?
Roger Lancelyn Green
The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.
Virchand Gandhi
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
Virchand Gandhi
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
Virchand Gandhi
Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A.E. Housman
Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.
Francesco Petrarca
Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar, Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar. English Translation. Oh Khusrau, the river of love Runs in strange directions. One who jumps into it drowns, And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
Richard M. Weaver