"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such."

Maurois, Andre on leadership   

"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."

Maurois, Andre on confidence
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"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."

Maurois, Andre on conversation
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"Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them."

Boileau, Nicholas on praise   

"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness   

"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."

Boileau, Nicholas on honor
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"Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you."

Boileau, Nicholas on praise   

"If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires."

Boileau, Nicholas on ancestry
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"Greatest fools are the most often satisfied."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write."

Boileau, Nicholas on writers and writing
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"The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all."

Boileau, Nicholas on wisdom
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"Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly."

Boileau, Nicholas on reason
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"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."

Dix, Dorothy on confession   

"The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues."

Hazlitt, William on confession   

"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on confession   

"Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress."

Maimonides on confession   

"If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title."

Poe, Edgar Allan on confession   

"He that jokes confesses."

Proverb, Italian on confession   

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

Mailer, Norman on art
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"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."

Wilde, Oscar on confession
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"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

Wilde, Oscar on confession
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"A confession has to be part of your new life."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on confession   

"A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any."

Unknown, Source on confession   

"Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on confession   

"Confessed faults are half-mended."

Proverb, Scottish on confession   

"Open confession is good for the soul."

Proverb, Scottish on confession   

"If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."

Einstein, Albert on instinct
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"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

Einstein, Albert on religion
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"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn."

Mcwilliams, Peter on mistakes
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"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

Levenson, Samuel on mistakes
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on mistakes
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."

Boswell, Nelson on mistakes
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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."

Bacon, Francis on discretion
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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

Bacon, Francis on doctors
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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

Bacon, Francis on family
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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

Bacon, Francis on fate   

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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

Bacon, Francis on desire
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