#reach

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to. ↗

— Lee Child

#life

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth? Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth? ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #preach #silly #truth #life

I wanted Cassia to choose me. In some ways, our being Matched is the biggest strike against me. How was she supposed to love me when the Society said she should? ↗

— Ally Condie

#reached #xander #love

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#had #heard #his #man #naked

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #cross #love #preach #violence

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#flowers #forgets #hand #his #man

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#parents-and-responsiblity #survival #treachery #respect

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. ↗

— Mark Twain

#forever #humor #live #must #preach