#very

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy. ↗

— Voltaire

#discovery

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#discovery

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#everything #expect #expected #nothing #obedience

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays. ↗

— N.H. Kleinbaum

#laziness #morose #tired #very #women

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#closer #every #home #home run #me

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#large #letters #miracles #same #see

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#always #complete #deed #everything #harmony

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#employment #essential #first #perpetually #regular

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#every #every man #free #man #press

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#literature #self-discovery #path