"A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Mind Quotes #Difficulty Quotes #Ill Quotes

“Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”
“Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.”
“There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.”
“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.”
“When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.”
“There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.”
“My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.”
“The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.”

You may also like: