Great Throughts Treasury

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are mor than enough for others." - Jane Austen

"I have enough to eat and wear, and time to see how beautiful the world is, and to enjoy it." - John Burroughs

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions." - John Ciardi, fully John Anthony Ciardi

"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough ot it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction." - John Donne

"God gives us always strength enough and sense enough, for every thing he wants us to do." - John Ruskin

"The enormous influence of novelty - the way in which it quickens observation, sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment - is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous." - John Ruskin

"If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical atmosphere and climate." - John Stuart Mill

"Protection against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them." - John Stuart Mill

"If any man thinks he can conceive well enough how there should be nothing, I will engage that what he means by nothing is as much something as anything that he ever though of in his life; and I believe that if he know what nothing was, it would be intuitively evident to him that it could not be... Absolute nothing is the aggregate of all the contradictions in the world." - Jonathan Edwards

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol

"Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate sin." - Joseph Addison

"If our belief is passionate enough, the river comes to us and in whatever form the passionate belief makes possible. Belief is causative and passion is formative. Passionate belief is the chaotic attractor that lifts chaos into its particular order." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe

"He is great enough who is his own master." - Joseph Hall

"In the presence of God we speak too much; we do not listen enough." - Joseph Roux

"We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough." - Joseph Roux

"We have not enough if we look upward, but more than enough if we look downward." - Kaibara Ekken, or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu NULL

"He who knows he has enough is rich." -

"If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy." - Laurence J. Peter, fully Laurence Johnston Peter

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

"It goes somehow against the grain to learn that cost-benefit analyses can be done neatly on lakes, meadows, nesting gannets, even whole oceans. It is hard enough to confront the environmental options ahead, and the hard choices, but even harder when the price tags are so visible. Even the new jargon is disturbing: it hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on." - Lewis Thomas

"Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"An absolute command of your temper, so as not to be provoked to passion, upon any account; patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications; with address enough to refuse, without offending, or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation; dexterity enough to conceal a truth without telling a lie; sagacity enough to read other people’s countenances; and serenity enough not to let them discover anything by your; a seeming frankness with a real reserve. There are the rudiments of a politician." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"Since you have to do things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do." - Malcolm S. Forbes, fully Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Sr.

"There is never enough time, unless you're serving it." - Malcolm S. Forbes, fully Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Sr.

"It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

"Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. We must make a stand against old age. We must atone for its faults by activity. We must exercise the mind as we exercise the body, to keep it supple and buoyant. Life may be short, but it is long enough to live honorably and well. Old age is the consummation of life, rich in blessings." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

"No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

"Once is enough." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. Or rather, may I say that it is enough to get a wrong-doer to repent of his misdeed, so that he may not repeat the offense, and also a means of deterring others from doing wrong." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

"If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter." - Margaret Mead

"You really can change the world if you care enough" - Marian Wright Edelman

"As the greatest single social influence during the formative years, schools have been the instruments of our greatest denial, unconsciousness, conformity, and broken connections. Just as allopathic medicine treats symptoms without concern for the whole system, schools break knowledge and experience into “subjects,” relentlessly turning wholes into parts, flowers into petals, history into events, without ever restoring continuity... Worse yet, not only the mind is broken, but too often, so is the spirit. Allopathic teaching produces the equivalent of iatrogenic, or doctor-caused” illness - teacher-caused learning disabilities. We might call these pedogenic illnesses. The child who may have come to school intact, with the budding courage to risk and explore, finds stress enough to permanently diminish that adventure." - Marilyn Ferguson

"If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature - even a caterpillar - I would never have to prepare a sermon. So full of God is every creature." - Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim

"When one subdues men by force, they do not submit to him in heart, but because they are not strong enough to resist. When one subdues men by virtue, they are pleased to the heart's core, and sincerely submit." - Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL

"It's not enough that we discern the ethical and effective course; we must follow it. This often takes will power or moral courage: the willingness to do the right thing even when it is inconvenient, scary, difficult or costly." - Michael S. Josephson

"People who are content being "basically honest" are admitting that when the stakes are high enough, they are willing to be dishonest. Doesn't that mean that they are basically dishonest?" - Michael S. Josephson

"From the point of view of an individual, it does not matter what the ultimate goal is - provided it is compelling enough to order a lifetime's worth of psychic energy... As long as it provides clear objectives, clear rules for action, and a way to concentrate and become involved, any goal can serve to give meaning to a person's life." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály

"When present living is enough, I experience myself as being enough." - Milton Mayeroff

"In honor of October, really just hours away now..... Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair." - Minna Thomas Antrim

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." - Napoleon Hill

"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. " - Napoleon Hill

"The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means I accept myself. It means I am not on trial in my own eyes. It means I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage." - Nathaniel Branden

"It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed.. Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all." - Norman Cousins

"Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact." - Norman Vincent Peale

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Oliver Goldsmith

"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills

"The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret. Great passions are for great souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine." - Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills