"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries."

Descartes, Rene on books - reading
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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

Descartes, Rene on thoughts and thinking   

"Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."

Deuteronomy on courage
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"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."

Dewey, John on happiness   

"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."

Dewey, John on logic
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

Dewey, John on science
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."

Dewey, John on action
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"We only think when we are confronted with problems."

Dewey, John on challenges
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"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."

Dewey, John on thoughts and thinking
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"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different."

Dewey, John on choice
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"A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television."

Dietrich, Marlene on war   

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

Dinesen, Isak on remedies   

"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."

Diogenes of Sinope on leadership
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"No man is hurt but by himself"

Diogenes of Sinope on conflict
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"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent."

Dionysius of Halicarnassus on speech   

"The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion."

Dirksen, Everett M. on passion   

"If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done."

Ditka, Mike on price   

"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."

Dix, Dorothy on service
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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

Conrad, Joseph on art   

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -- and to put its trust in life."

Conrad, Joseph on trust
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."

Conrad, Joseph on work   

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."

Conrad, Joseph on courage
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"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals."

Conklin, Robert on commitment
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"It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation."

Conklin, Robert on attitude
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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."

Conklin, Robert on appreciation
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on experience
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on medicine   

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"No one does anything from a single motive."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on motivation
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"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on reform   

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"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
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"The real secret to success is enthusiasm."

Chrysler, Walter on enthusiasm
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"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."

Dante Alighieri on cries and crying
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"In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri on god
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"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

Darrow, Clarence on truth
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"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

Darrow, Clarence on doubt
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"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't."

Darrow, Clarence on age and aging
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Daniels, Josephus on defeat
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"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

Dandemis on judgment and judges
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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