Reason speaks and feeling bites

Quote by Plutarch

Topics: Reason Quotes

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...

Character is simply habit long continued.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that...

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or...

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or...

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they...

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they...

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to...

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other...

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other...

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so...

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so...

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age...

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age...

Contrary to the parlor-room Pershings around [Washington], we have a fully integrated multi-service unified command...

Contrary to the parlor-room Pershings around [Washington], we have a fully integrated multi-service unified command...

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is...

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is...