#elves

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves. ↗

— Zac Posen

#body image #fashion #image #killing #themselves

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#class #class clown #clown #fun #good

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#must #often #ourselves #really #science

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#care #i #i think #other #ourselves

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#conceptual #course #especially #familiarize #good