Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, nor to read it in books. Look for the truth within yourself, not without yourself.
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
