A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.
Belief creates biology.
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe
We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
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