Category: philosopher
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
Maria Montessori
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya