#oneself

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. ↗

— James Meade

#expanding #fields #finds #frontiers #further

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

#helplessly #impossible #oneself #open #talk

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. ↗

— Mencius

#duty #every #oneself #others #root

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#happen #i #i think #make #needs

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#change #for the people #good #happen #i

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#add #beneficial #constructive #hopefully #lead

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#integrity #love #love is #oneself #outside

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ↗

— Helen Keller

#bicycle #brain #effort #gift #greatest

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bravery #certain #certain point #chivalry #frame