Gujrati Quotes

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.

The shadow is what we think of it;

the tree is the real thing.

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science

that by acting on the human mind

it has overcome man's insecurity

before himself and before nature.

The more a thing tends to be permanent,

the more it tends to be lifeless.

The thing is, I make music I like.

So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

Buy land,

they're not making it anymore.

The more I work,

the more I realize how little I know.

The purpose of opening the mind,

as of opening the mouth,

is to shut it again on something solid.

The world of reality has its limits;

the world of imagination is boundless.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone

who can do him absolutely no good.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation,

and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is,

on the appearance of one of these two sides,

to find the other: given the upper,

to find the under side.

New opinions are always suspected,

and usually opposed,

without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment

and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system,

planning, intelligence, and honest purpose,

as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty,

but I never cared about acceptance as much as

I cared about respect.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Everyone has in them a piece of good news.

The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.