Posted by: Marilů Rossi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Experience is of no ethical value. It is merely the name men give to their mistakes.
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Experience is of no ethical value. It is merely the name men give to their mistakes.
An educated man is a man who can give a beautiful meaning to beautiful things.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
Fear is the principal source of superstition and of cruelty. Winning over fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Which can be the right that the men attribute themselves to slaughter their similar ones?
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
All the things, also the less interesting ones, or the most ugly, have an pleasant side. You must just want to see it.