I Quotes
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“It is believed that these errors are worth their benefit to society, and as you know we must, as a society, always think of society. And we must understand that the integrity of society in general is of a greater importance than of society in specific, that is, people are more important than a person.”
“It is bemusing to observe when formative periods of one's past become grist for scholarly, ideological, and casual interpretation and debate and are constructed and reconstructed from the standpoint of current concerns and debates. That's also inevitable, on one level what history is. A danger, however, is that, when reckoning with the past becomes too much like an allegory, its nuances and contingencies, its essential open-endedness, can disappear. Then history can become either a narrative of inevitable, progressive unfolding to the present or, worse, a tendentious assertion that nothing has ever changed, and both divesting the past of its discrete foreignness and contingency or reducing it to the warm-up act for the present are handmaidens of ruling class power. The danger of that tendency is especially great in moments of ruling class triumphalism such as this one.”
Source: The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
“It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.”
Source: The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
“It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.”
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
Source: Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman
“It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !”
“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”
“It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.”
“It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.”
“It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.”
“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable”
“It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.”
“It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.”
Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel
“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”
“It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
“It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps the tenth. Alternately, one may become an engineer devising precious algorithms in the cloisters of Google and its like. Otherwise, one becomes a mere employee. A coder of websites at Facebook is no one in particular. A manager at Microsoft is no one. A person (think woman) working in customer relations is a particular type of no one, banished to the bottom, as always, for having spoken directly to a non-technical human being. All these and others are ways for strivers to fall by the wayside — as the startup culture sees it — while their betters race ahead of them. Those left behind may see themselves as ordinary, even failures.”
Source: Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
“It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
“It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.”
Source: My Brother's Killer
“It is best to emphasize again and again that spiritual awakening has nothing to do with reaching a divine state. Rather, it is the acknowledgement that every moment is about accepting life’s divinity.”
“It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people”
Source: Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan
“It is best to follow your own beliefs and not be misled or influenced by the ideologies of others. When they change their stance, you may be seen as the one who is wrong. Always do what is right and stay true to what you believe in. Use logic and common sense, regardless of trends, popularity, public opinion, the majority, or external pressure.”
“It is best to know the worst at once.”
“It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.”
“It is best to live however one can be.”
“It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“It is best to live life gulping down one’s anxiety and flying higher than anybody else.”
Source: Secrets Clad in Light
“It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.”
“It is best to love some people at least a kilometre away from them.”
“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.”
“It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.”
“It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.”
Source: Winter Trees
“It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.”
“It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.”
“It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.”
“It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.”
Source: Essential Einstein
“It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken”
“It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.”
Source: Daniel Deronda (丹尼爾的半生緣)
“It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“It is better, after all, to have a face that people want to punch, than to have one that excites no desire at all...”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.”
“It is better and wiser to punish a perpetrator and the offender than to ignore the reaction of the victims.”
“It is better being the victim then the victimizer.”
“It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.”
Source: Enchiridion
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
Source: The Histories
“It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.”
“It is better fighting and losing than not fighting at all!”
“It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study