Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus

• Mind
• Thinking

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Herman Melville

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Jimmy Carter

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Self-discovery

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Milan Kundera

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

Donald Trump

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

Kevin Costner

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Aristotle

• Nature

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Jeremy Irons

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

• Music

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

• Nature

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin

• Education

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Hermann Hesse

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Henry David Thoreau

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Herodotus

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

Omar Sharif