Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Salman Khurshid
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Adam Clarke
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Willi Unsoeld
I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.
Lloyd Blankfein
Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
Francis Bacon
I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
Hannah Murray
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.
Wilhelm von Humboldt