"A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned."

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Source : F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing

Max Muller

#Men Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 13, 2013
“There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.”
“Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.”
“That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.”
“We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.”
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

Source : "Attributed to Alfred Hitchcock in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion"". 1984.
“Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.”

Source : "Obama's End Goal: World Without Nuclear Weapons". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 13, 2010.
“I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?”

Source : "'I sang and did the vixen stuff'". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. february 24, 2009.

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