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118 Polymath Quotes

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Say Beautiful World Shape
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life, which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Man Ethical Obey Shrink
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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those who rekindle the inner spirit.

Fire Out Human Spirit
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but at the same time it becomes richer and happier.
Life When Live Time
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Great Life Man Secret
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Life Devote Help Need
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red spotlight, the truly wise person is colorblind.

Wise Person Light While
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The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Must Custom Matter Choice
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

True Worth Found Come
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Animal Man Who Behave
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Sun Melt Evaporate Constant
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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

Power Truth Have Confidence
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In the hopes of reaching the moon, we fail to see the flowers that blossom at our feet.

Feet Hope Moon See
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Life While What The
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

Live Give Thing. Know
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Key Love Will Success
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Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind.
Nature Soothing Mind Tormented
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There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Stages Scientific Discovery People
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
True Enjoyment Activity Mind
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Government Best Makes Unnecessary
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Convinced Happiness Unhappiness Depends
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Great Evil Immorality Forget
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Glance Important Revolutions Greatest
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Person Masters Fate Important
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Citizen Indifferent Fellows Husband
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

War Seems Salutary Phenomena
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Insight Universal Nature Intellectual.delight
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Usually Important Man Meets
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Collaborate Operate Process Successful
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There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Education Races Cultured Advance
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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Only Wrought Character Life
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With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
Animals Man Alertness Diminishes
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The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Philosophical Nature Endeavors Vicissitudes
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Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
Nature Soothing Tormented Mind
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The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

Dangerous Worldview Never Viewed
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Cruelty Animals Significant Vices
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Add Carry Clouds Color
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Butterfly Counts Enough Moments
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Gray Hairs Hold Signs
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Child Discouraged Every God
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Age considers; youth ventures.

Age Considers Ventures Youth
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Difficulty Disturb Every Ghost
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Bird Dark Dawn Faith
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Freedom Full Gain Paid
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Blade Bleed Hand Knife
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Bondage Emancipation Freedom Soil
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Dust God Greater Idol
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