Category: philosopher
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
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China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.
Noam Chomsky
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer