“The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Martin Svoboda
Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variante: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) francouzský politik
Origine: Převzato z Alberto Manguel, Čtení obrazů
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017)
Převzato z Alberto Manguel, Čtení obrazů
Origine: Richard Wilber, An Event
„Kdo umí dobře zacházet s kladivem, má sklon si myslet, že všechno jsou hřebíky.“
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) americký psycholog
Origine: [Covey, Stephen R., 7 návyků skutečně efektivních lidí, Management Press, Praha, 2009, 978-80-7261-156-0, 125]
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Often misattributed to Twain, this is actually by Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.
Misattributed
Origine: The Provincial Letters
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Blaise Pascal Pensieri
Variante: All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Origine: Pensées
“It is better to know something about everything then everything about something”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“To understand is to forgive.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“What keeps me going is goals.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”
Muhammad Ali libro The Soul of a Butterfly
Origine: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey