The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart is still beating the contrary (i.e., in opposite directions in the different vessels) movement of the blood is observed in the vessels-though with difficulty-so that the circulation of the blood is clearly exposed.
There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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