Honore de Balzac Quotes

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Honore de Balzac

• Discover
• Human Heart
• Winter's Frost

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • You
  • Cutting

• The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Financial
  • Discover

• When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Free
  • Discover

• With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Think
  • Discover

• It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Business
  • Taken
  • Two

• When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Years
  • Own
  • Discover

• The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Records
  • Discover

• In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Important
  • Children
  • Parents

• The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • Way
  • Stories

• Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Live
  • Brave
  • Wonderful

• As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Time
  • Stupid

• With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Wonderful
  • Discover

• I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• ...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Truth
  • Pride
  • Discover

• If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you...

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Moving

• One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Up
  • Religion
  • Discover

• Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Life
  • Color
  • Discover

• Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Waiting
  • Weakness
  • Deceived

• I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Suffering

• Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Discover
  • Human Heart
  • Winter's Frost