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Inspirational Quotations #151

January 8, 2007 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Climb high, climb far.|Your goal is the sky, your aim the star.
—Unknown

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn … and change.
—Carl Rogers (American Psychologist)

By depending on the great,|The small may rise high.|See: the little plant ascending the tall tree|Has climbed to the top.
—Sakya Pandita

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
—Pythagoras (Greek Philosopher)

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide ‘ll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (American Abolitionist)

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
—Panchatantra

There is one art of which every man should be a master—the art of reflection.—If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)

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