John Sterling
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.Collection: Intelligence
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.Collection: Men
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.Collection: Strong
You just cant predict baseballCollection: Baseball
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.Collection: Lying
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.Collection: Giving
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.Collection: Truth
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.Collection: Emotional
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.Collection: Duplicity
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.Collection: Believe
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.Collection: Men
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.Collection: Education
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.Collection: Laughter
Man is a substance clad in shadows.Collection: Men
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.Collection: Hands
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.Collection: Men
I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.Collection: Education
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.Collection: Lying
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.Collection: Poetry
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.Collection: Wind
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.Collection: Men
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.Collection: Lakes
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.Collection: Flower
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.Collection: Dream
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.Collection: Faith
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.Collection: Truth
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.Collection: Fighting
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.Collection: Tyrants
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.Collection: Beautiful