“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to discover it in himself”
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“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to discover it in himself”
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered ”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life ”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock”
“Friendships are discovered rather than made.”
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth”
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late”
“We come too late to say anything which has not been said already”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before”
“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him”