“One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.”
Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Source: https://www.hernetwork.com.q-a-adenikeoyetunde Adenike Oyetunde on question and answer section at Her Network.
“One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.”
Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter VIII, p. 721.
“Attend to all your duties but keep your mind fixed on God.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
As quoted in Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965) by Christopher Isherwood, p. 265
Context: Chant the name of God and sing his glories unceasingly; and keep holy company. Now and then one should visit holy men and devotees of God. If a man lives in the world and busies himself day and night with worldly duties and responsibilities, he cannot give his mind to God. So it's important to go into solitude from time to time, and think about God. When the plant is young, it should be fenced on all sides. Unless there's a fence around it, goats and cattle may eat it up.
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake. God alone is real, that is to say, eternal; everything else is unreal, because it will pass away. As you discriminate in this manner, let your mind give up its attachment to the fleeting objects of this world. … Attend to all your duties but keep your mind fixed on God. Wife, son, father, mother — live with all of them and serve them, as if they were your very own. But know in your heart of hearts that they are not your own.
“One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.”
Murray Kempton (1917–1997) American journalist
"Serpents on the Nile," http://books.google.com/books?id=-tQ1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22One+does+not+attend+this+movie+one+enlists+in+it%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage a review of The Ten Commandments (1956)
George Mason (1725–1792) American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Letter to his son, John Mason (12 June 1788)
Murasaki Shikibu book The Diary of Lady Murasaki
source http://no-sword.jp/blog/2010/03/iced_cream.html <br class="br">The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002) Austrian-born American theoretical physicist
Victor Weisskopf to J. Howard McMillen, 14 Mar 1960, also as quoted by [David Kaiser, Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics, University of Chicago Press, 2005, 0226422674, 336]
“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (in office in 1841)
Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)