Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Live
  • Lost

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Live
  • Society
  • Prosperity

• If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Real
  • Giving
  • Support

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I work a lot, and I prepare a lot. I think that's really important when you live in LA, to go the extra mile for whatever it is that you're trying to achieve. You realize out here that when you stop moving so fast, it's a lot harder than you thought. A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times. I think you just have to always present yourself at your best, and you just need to be prepared all the time. Looking good, and feeling good, and being positive, and being in the right set of mind to accept whatever comes your way.

  

  Leven Rambin
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Feelings

• Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

  

  Jose Eduardo dos Santos
  • People
  • Confidence

• Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Courage
  • Stuff