H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He who thinks little errs much.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.”
“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.”
“He who thinks that a Prison Cell is the worst Deprivation of Freedom, has never been fixed onto a Net-Bed.”
“He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.”
Source: Addresses
“He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.”
“He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“He who thinks that the working class can be assured, prosperity and freedom by organizing economic life on a militaristic basis is wrong. No less erroneous is it to strive for a dictatorship for the purpose of crushing the enemy and establishing the working class in a privileged position in the state and society while reducing the rest of the population to the position of pariahs as a means of ultimately establishing socialist equality for all. But most objectionable of all would be to attempt to build a regime of humanity upon the basis of brutality, seeing that without the former no true Socialist commonwealth can exist. For this commonwealth must represent the realization of the slogan of the French Revolution, which was “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”
Source: Social Democracy Versus Communism
“He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.”
“He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.”
“He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.”
“He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.”
“He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.”
Source: Politics
“He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.”
“He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.”
“He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.”
“He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.”
“He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.”
“He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”
“He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.”
Source: Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]
“He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.”
“He who treads softly goes far.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.”
“He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.”
“He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her”
“He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.”
“He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.”
“He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.”
Source: Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
“He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
“He who truly seeks God has found Him.”
“He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.”
“He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.”
“He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”
“He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master”
“He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.”
“He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .”
“He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.”
“He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.”
“He who understands humanity seeks solitude”
“He who understands nature walks close with God.”
Source: Symbols: Guiding Lights Along the Journey of Life
“He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.”
“He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.”
“He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor know your true worth.”
Source: The Wisdom of Gibran: Aphorisms and Maxims
“He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.”