"The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant."

-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Learning Quotes #Men Quotes #May Quotes

“Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.”
“On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.”
“When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.”
“Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.”
“Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.”
“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.”

Source : Speech in Hawarden, Wales, May 28, 1890.
“I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.”
“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

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