"To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Children Quotes #Forever Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”
“One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth." (Acts 9:11). Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.”

Source : "Sin and Its Consequences".
“Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.”
“The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.”
“First learn to love yourself, and then you can love me.”
“Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.”
“The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world.”
“Learning is experience understood in tranquility.”

Source : Charles B. Handy (1998). “Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations”, p.155, Harvard Business Press

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