It is easier to stay out than get out.
- Topic: Habits, Integrity
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
