"The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes."

-- Michael Steinhardt

#Mistake Quotes #Humility Quotes #Balance Quotes

“The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
“Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”
“In some ways, what I need is a wife.”
“We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.”
“Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.”
“The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press
“Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.”
“In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.”

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