#thou

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#thoughts #words #men

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning ↗

— Isabel Ramos

#knowledge-of-self #thoughts-from-the-heart #witty #inspirational

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#inspirational #inspiring #philosophical #religious #thought-provoking

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#book #charm #contains #dwells #echoes

Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#inspirational

Be tough minded but tenderhearted. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#independent-thought #inspirational #life #inspirational

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#life #life-goes-on #life-lessons #positive #positive-thinking