Sophocles Quotes
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson
I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
Daisaku Ikeda
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete absorption which takes place. And then it manifests. This is how the Divine Power works within us. So with our gravity, what we do is to touch that depth within us, which can carry the Divine Power and manifest.
Nirmala Srivastava
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
