“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Ægeus, Frag. 7
“I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.”
Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715
Je mettrais plutôt toute l'Europe d'accord que deux femmes.
Comte de Mirabeau. Esprit de Mirabeau (v.1, page 246)
“A dignified man prefers to be feared and respected rather than being loved”
Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist
“Black lives are considered to be substantially cheaper than white lives in this country.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (1950) American academic and author
The fight against racism doesn't stop here (2013)
““Better to make haste slowly than not at all,” said Amnir sententiously.”
Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 11 (p. 74)
“There is no prophet which preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics.”
Paul Carus (1852–1919) American philosopher
"Reflections on Magic Squares" in The Monist, Vol. 16 (1906), p. 147
Variant: There is no science which teaches the harmonies of nature more clearly than mathematics.
“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”
Abraham Isaac Kook book Orot
Orot Hatchiah 14.
Orot
“It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.”
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723) English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Devit v. College of Dublin (1720), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 176.
“It's almost as if our society values opinion more than it values knowledge.”
Hank Green (1980) American vlogger
Japan's Nuclear Disaster Explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvUtY0PfB8 <br class="br">Youtube
“Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.”
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 92
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs
“I'd rather cut my arm off than vote for that jerk.”
Mike Murphy (political consultant) (1962) American political consultant
As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard <br class="br">2010s
“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)
“Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Believe me, no one wants to finish this book more than me.”
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
Progress update on A Dance with Dragons via his website (2008)
“Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 20
“Good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere.”
…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus-germ-latin.html#19]
End of chapter 19, http://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitus-germania-5.php <br class="br">Germania (98)
“People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.”
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)