To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. Robert Louis Stevenson About change, Education, Learning, Wise You May Also Like It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. By ALEC BOURNE Education He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. By Susan Sontag Appreciation, Self-esteem, Wise Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit. By Napoleon Bonaparte Status, Wise He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. By Andrew Lang Life, Public speaking, Wise Bad times have a scientific value. . . . We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunity, Wise All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. By Mao Tse-tung Experience, Knowledge, Wise You May Also Like from Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. By Robert Louis Stevenson Empowering, Freedom, Inspirational, Motivational, Wise There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson Duty, Happiness, Inspirational Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. By Robert Louis Stevenson Selling Every man has a sane spot somewhere. By Robert Louis Stevenson Insanity It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. By Robert Louis Stevenson Action, Inevitable, Retrospect Everyone lives by selling something. By Robert Louis Stevenson Life, Marketing, Selling, Success
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. By Susan Sontag Appreciation, Self-esteem, Wise
Bad times have a scientific value. . . . We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunity, Wise
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. By Robert Louis Stevenson Empowering, Freedom, Inspirational, Motivational, Wise
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson Duty, Happiness, Inspirational
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. By Robert Louis Stevenson Action, Inevitable, Retrospect
