A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
