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| Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. | Atwood H. Townsend | |
| Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. | Doug King | |
| An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. | Dutch Proverb | Sayings of Dutch Origin |
| The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. | G. M. Trevelyan | 1876-1962, British Historian |
| The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett | |
| I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
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| If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. | Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher |
| Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. | John Morely | |
| You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. | John Morely | |
| A book worth reading is worth buying. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. | John Wesley | 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism |
| The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| Patience means self-suffering. | Mahatma Gandhi | 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader |
| I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. | Margaret Mead | 1901-1978, American Anthropologist |
| Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
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| An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory. | Source Unknown | |
| A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. | Henry James | 1843-1916, American Author |
| In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?'' | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. | Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957, British Author, Painter |
| A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. | Babe Didrikson Zaharias | 1924-1956, American Sportswoman -- Basketball, Golf, Track & Field |
| There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. | Blum Ralph | American Author |
| The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
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| The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. | Elias Canetti | 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher |
| The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. | Francis H. Bradley | 1846-1924, British Philosopher |
| A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. | Francis Picabia | 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet |
| It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. | George Gurdjieff | 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer |
| One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. | James A. Froude | 1818-1894, British Historian |
| He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it. | John Morely | |
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| Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. | John Updike | 1932-, American Novelist, Critic |
| It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
| Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. | Leigh Hunt | 1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist |
| An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. | Pancho Segura | Ecuador Tennis Player |
| To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. | Sir William Osler | 1849-1919, Canadian Physician |
| The unexamined life is not worth living. | Socrates | BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens |
| Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again. | Source Unknown | |
| Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying. | Source Unknown | |
| When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
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