Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 22
“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist
As quoted in Treasury of the Christian Faith : An Encyclopedic Handbook of the Range and Witness of Christianity (1949) by Stanley Irving Stuber and Thomas Curtis Clark, p. 807
“It is not the things that we have, but how we use them that is important.”
Georg von Békésy (1899–1972) Hungarian physicist
in My experiences in different laboratories, autobiographical speech by von Békésy published in Fizikai Szemle 1999/5. 166.o.
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.”
Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Hesiod Greek poet
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
We know how to tell many lies that pass for truth, and we know, when we wish, to tell the truth itself.
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), lines 27–28. Variant translations:
Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
Love Over Scotland, chapter 112.
The 44 Scotland Street series
Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“In life, the important is not what happens, but how we deal with it.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nella vita, l'importante non è ciò che accade, ma come lo si affronta.
Source: prevale.net
