Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Adrienne Rich, fully Adrienne Cecil Rich

The unconscious wants the truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Truth | Wants |

Aesop NULL

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Tomorrow | Wants |

Aristippus NULL

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.

Better | Humanity | Money | Wants |

Author Unknown NULL

A person who wants to lead the orchestra must be willing to face the music.

Music | Wants |

Arthur Schopenhauer

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, an time and energy limited.

Books | Energy | Good | Life | Life | Man | Time | Wants |

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man must know what is his real, chief, and foremost object in life - what it is that he most wants in order to be happy…he must find out what, on the whole, his vocation really is - the part he has to play, his general relation to the world. If he maps out important work for himself on great lines, a glance at this miniature plan of his life will more than anything else stimulate, rouse, ennoble, and urge him on to action and keep him from false paths.

Action | Happy | Important | Life | Life | Man | Object | Order | Plan | Play | Wants | Will | Work | World |

Baal Shem Tov, given name Yisroel ben Eliezer

When God wants to punish a man, He deprives him of faith.

Faith | God | Man | Wants | God |

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Little | Wants | Wealth |

Charles Caleb Colton

Augur said, " Give me neither poverty or riches"' and this will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our incomes should be like our shoes: if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more.

Cause | Gall | Little | Poverty | Prayer | Riches | Wants | Wealth | Will | Wise |

Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Man | Money | Success | Wants |

Charles Caleb Colton

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants: for if they be real wants they will come in search of you. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Search | Wants | Will | Think |

Chief Joseph, born Hinmuuttu-yalatlat

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

Chance | Earth | Law | Liberty | Man | Men | Mother | Peace | People | Rights | Spirit | Wants |

Democritus NULL

If you do not desire much, little will seem much to you, for small wants give poverty the power of wealth.

Desire | Little | Poverty | Power | Wants | Wealth | Will |

Edmund Burke

‘Tis the beginning of hell in this life, and a passion not to be excused. Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

Beginning | Envy | Hell | Life | Life | Passion | Pleasure | Sin | Wants | Will |

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for, (including) the want of sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Government | Men | Restraint | Right | Wants | Wisdom |

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The mind wants to believe that changing our circumstances will bring us peace. The mind thinks we’ve got to do something. But the reality is that we can relax in the circumstances as they are now, knowing that deep patience will bring deep peace and healing.

Circumstances | Knowing | Mind | Patience | Peace | Reality | Wants | Will |

George Bernard Shaw

The open mind never acts - when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still, when we can reason and investigate no more, must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our own conclusion. The man who wants to make an entirely reasonable will dies intestate.

Man | Mind | Reason | Wants | Will |

George Herbert

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

Enough | Nothing | Wants |

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Man | Murder | Wants | Murder |