Tricia Harris > Tricia's Quotes

“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
― Cornel West

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
― Cornell West

“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...”
― Marcus Garvey

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
― Marcus Garvey

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
― Marcus Garvey

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
― kahlil gibran

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.”
― Socrates

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
― Aristotle

“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd”
― Aristotle

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
― Aristotle

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis