#tru

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#brave #conscience #courage #him #his

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else. ↗

— Van Cliburn

#artist #dead #eclipse #else #evaluated

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#been #brick #collapse #due #i

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning

My stress resulted from not knowing God, not trusting him with my whole heart, seeking peace and purpose from the world instead of from him, and from being so afraid of change that I would rather suffer than obey. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#god #peace #stress #trust #change

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#generally #noises #thought #true

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day. ↗

— Neil Finn

#day #say #tantrum #threw #used

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different