Themselves - Quotes
Too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
I believe in the America people`s ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Millions long for immortality who don`t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.