#ought

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#thoughts #words #men

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown ↗

— Herman Melville

#soul #thought #men

Be yourself, because really, who else can you be...? ↗

— James A. Murphy

#phylosophy #thoughts-on-life #inspirational

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. ↗

— A.T. Baron

#imagination #inspirational #thought-provoking #imagination

Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning ↗

— Isabel Ramos

#knowledge-of-self #thoughts-from-the-heart #witty #inspirational

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗