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“From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.”

Courses Situation Study Serious Judging Circumstances Harm Acquire Best Education Actual Life

Author:Polybius

“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.”

Persons Perfect Becoming Tasks Harm Chiefs Arrogance Arrogant Interfere Better Person Arrogant People Becoming A Better Person Arrogant Person

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.”

Knows Use Government Company Gone Television Phones Harm Innocent Eras Corporations Massive Telephones Phone Calls Databases

Author:Studs Terkel

“For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.”

World Years Believe Wells Long Philosophy Belief Strong Religious My Own Direct Harm Innocent Zeal Muhammad Undone Messengers Pseudo Elijah Narrow-minded Religious Philosophy Elijah Muhammad

Author:Malcolm X

“I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.”

Ifs Men Reality Term Differences White Accepting Color Harm Cease Oneness Hinder Mecca

Author:Malcolm X

“I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.”

Believe Wells My Own Harm Innocent Zeal Undone

Book:Malcolm X: the last speeches

Source: Malcolm X: the last speeches

“No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.”

Thinking Activity Harm Immoral

Book:The Tempting of America

Source: The Tempting of America

“If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.”

“You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.”

Way Force Knowing Harm

Author:Leon Panetta

“Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.”

Way Real Philosophy Use Values Natural Wealth Drink Protect Theater Harm Perfume Baths Protect You Containers Luxurious Real Value Food And Drink

Author:Epicurus

“There is no harm in a man's cub.”

Book:Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories

Source: Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories

“Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.”

People Way Spiritual Harm Physics Pimp Christine

Author:Christine O'Donnell

“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”

Persons Said Lasts Life Is Lying Judgment Optimism Errors Excuse Deny Harm Statements Lied Untrue Doers Recoil Vilify

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.”

World Remember Dangerous Stupidity Harm Folly Darkness In Macbeth

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.”

Stupid Stupidity Harm Stupid Things

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.”

People Harm Good People Altruism Doing Good

Author:Mandell Creighton

“Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.”

Action Funny Kindness Circumstances Drink Activity Drinking Refuse Harm Damage Injury Be Kind Good Deeds Refusal Funny Drinking Doings

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.”

World Average Harm Developing Global Warming

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life”

Moments Facts Helping Spirit Evil Existence Consciousness Destiny Achieve Development Highest Essence Harm Preserves Cute Midst Humane Elementals Hamper Cute Life

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.”

May Care Beautiful Tree Birth Fruit Take Care Harm Shakes Pregnancy Pregnant Harvest Childbirth Bruises Flowering Pregnant Women Beautiful Flower Flowering Trees

Author:Peter Jackson

“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”

Men Loss Wise Losing Harm Redress

Author:William Shakespeare

“The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.”

Purpose Ability Constitution Majority Harm Minorities

Author:James Madison

“More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.”

Done Evil Fool Harm Foolishness Wickedness Doers Evil Doers

Author:Muhammad

“Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.”

Wells Doe Self Speak Speech Harm Buddhist Torment

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.”

Mind Enemy Worst Pride Buddhism Praise Blame Harm Absence Buddhist Calmness Equilibrium Worst Enemy Poise Spiritual Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.”

Mind Doe Hate Attitude Enemy Greater Harm Hate You Undisciplined

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.”

Way Body Three Inspiring Wise Masters Harm Your Body Buddhist One Way Purity Finding Yourself Dhammapada Real Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”

Source: Zen Dogs

“So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.”

“All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”

Hurt Violence Harm Buddhist Love Life Fear Of Death

Author:Gautama Buddha

“He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.”

Life Doe Reason Harm Noble Buddhist Nobility

Author:Gautama Buddha

“One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.”

Defeat Harm Buddhist Refrain Great Ones Harming Others

Author:Gautama Buddha

“She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.”

Children Ends Action Mother Mom Consequence Harm Motherhood Selfless Being A Mom Irreparable Irreparable Harm

Book:The McCone Files

Source: The McCone Files

“In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.”

Way Feelings Grief Land Harm Grieving Lasting Crash Taxi Landing Wreckage

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.”

Made Said Soul Done Facts Evil Wish Sin Half Understood Harm Graves My Soul Mortals Warning Deceiving They Said Mortal Sin

Author:Teresa of Avila

“For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.”

Knows Feels Doe Helping Body Lying Mother Father Enemy Meditation Worst Woods Harm Useless Worst Enemy Discarded

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.”

Needs Helping Form Evil Doors Objects Positive Arms Listening Sorrow Goodness Glory Weak Praise Asking Blind Charity Legs Harm Deaf Deities Glory Of God Hurrying Asking For Help Leading The Blind

Author:Muhammad

“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”

Philosophical Good Things Harm

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”

Men May Can Do Philosophical Harm Every Man

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.”

Life Helping Enemy Worst Mindfulness Harm Compassionate Thoughts On Life Worst Enemy Unwise

Author:Gautama Buddha

“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”

People Ifs Wisdom Fall Causes Lord Creatures Benefits Harm Complaining Partners Rely Islamic Misfortunes Associates Good Will Displeasure

Author:Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, & should entertain his guest generously.”

Should Believe Lasts Harm Neighbor Islamic Guests Last Day Believe In Allah

Author:Muhammad

“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

People Might Wish Ordinary Capacity Harm Unlimited Ordinary People Doing Good Unlimited Power

Author:Socrates

“What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!”

Helping Support Tragedy Mental Health Harm Support Me It Support

Author:Publilius Syrus

“As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.”

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.”

Inspirational Wisdom Easy Difficult Buddhism Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Benefits Oneself Philosopher Harm Good Buddhist Good Deeds Beneficial Wise Man Once Said Being A Good Person

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.”

Way Capable Built Criticism Harm Destroyed Thinker Psychologist 1930s Jung

Book:Now, Discover Your Strengths

Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths

“Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.”

Humans Wells Animal Risk Planets Species Harm Arise Well Being Sand Remove

Author:Michael Greger

“We no longer need to discuss whether or not it is safe – over a decade and a half with three trillion GM meals eaten there has never been a single substantiated case of harm. You are more likely to get hit by an asteroid than to get hurt by GM food.”

Needs Three Hurt Half Cases Safe Harm Decades Meals Asteroids

Author:Mark Lynas

“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”