Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Anscombe, fully Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret "G. E. M." Anscombe

You cannot take any performance (even an interior performance) as itself an act of intention; for if you describe a performance, the fact that it has taken place is not a proof of intention; words for example may occur in somebody’s mind without his meaning them. so intention is never a performance in the mind, though in some matters a performance in the mind which is seriously meant may make a difference to the correct account of the man’s action - e.g., in embracing someone. But the matters in question are necessarily ones in which outward acts are ‘significant’ in some way.

Action | Example | Intention | Man | Meaning | Mind | Question | Wisdom | Words |

John Greenleaf Whittier

For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."

Character | Words |

Antisthenes NULL

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Beginning | Education | Meaning | Wisdom | Words |

Vicksburg Whig, also called Vicksburg Weekly Whig, Weekly Whig

With temper calm and mild, and words of soften’d tone, he overthrows his neighbor’s cause and justifies his own.

Cause | Character | Temper | Words |

Chayim Efrayim Zaichyk

If you have a positive attitude towards the events of your life, even though to an outside observer your life might seem full of suffering, you nevertheless will live a happy life. What to others might seem misfortunes, you will view as opportunities for spiritual growth.

Character | Events | Growth | Happy | Life | Life | Suffering | Will |

Hans Christian Anderson

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music | Wisdom | Words |

Harry F. Banks, real name possibly Harry Band

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Ability | Important | Success | Wisdom |

Clarence Edward Barnfield

Vocabulary is an index to a civilization, and ours is a disturbed one. That's why so many of the new words deal with war, violence, drugs, racism, and not so many with peace and prosperity.

Civilization | Peace | Prosperity | War | Wisdom | Words |

Babylonian Talmud

No man shall be held responsible for words uttered in affliction.

Affliction | Man | Wisdom | Words |

James Beattie

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

Love | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Counsel | Knowledge | Wisdom | Words | Counsel |

Richard Beer-Hoffmann

The road is pre-destined, but the way we walk it, the attitude with which we bear our fate, can be of great influence over events.

Events | Fate | Influence | Wisdom |

Claude M. Bristol

Their repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Mind | Wisdom | Words |

John Christian Bovee

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Fame | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

Catherine Bowen, née Catherine Shober Drinker

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

Courage | Ideals | Life | Life | Persistence | Shame | Success | Truth | Will | Wisdom | Words | Afraid |

M. M. Brewster, fully Margaret Maria Brewster Gordon

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.

Eternity | Wisdom | Words | Old |

Chester Bliss Bowles

The chief characteristics of the (liberal) attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

Change | Faith | Reason | Sympathy | Wisdom |