"Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself."

-- Philip Sidney

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Past Quotes

“Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.”
“Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.”
“A young trooper should have an old horse.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.304
“It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.”
“Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.36, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.”
“Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.”

Source : Betty Jane Wylie (1988). “All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world”
“I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.”

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