Xun Kuang Quotes
A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
Xun Kuang
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
Clifford D. Simak
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
William Penn
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
Elena Ferrante
A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
Xun Kuang
