For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time...

Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.

•Spirit is like hell of difficulties, problems, etc .. But only we humans create our life easy heaven by spreading love all over.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Maybe man is nothing in particular,’ Cross said gropingly. ‘Maybe that’s the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams...

The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied half the horizon, had for...

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

… a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

Distance reflects the true intensity of the relationship.. Some people come too close & Some forgets that u exist too..

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced it had long passed; but how do we know that it will remain...

What a piece of work is man!

Are people innately altruistic?” is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated–for good or ill–if only you find the right levers....

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

I think, actually I know that it’s overwhelmingly possible for men to conduct such atrocities as to kill a man in cold blood, to burn towns and to parade with the the dead on the...

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.

Real action without the passion is difficult, but the real passion without the compassion is impossible.

Because,” she said, “that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn’t they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which...

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the...

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.

The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people’s sides all of her life.

A healer’s power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.

It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,’ says Jim. ‘Your body is just...

Licht holt uit. Een mens zit ook zo vol gaten. Een mens zou geslotener moeten zijn. Op den duur kan men niets meer binnenhouden.

Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable […]. Does our education prepare us...

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we...

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different – unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day,...

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that’s what being a parent is...

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and...

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature.

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up...

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the...

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

…tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.