Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
- Topic: Leadership
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?
I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.