Tom Patton famous quotes

It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.
-- Tom Patton

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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.