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행복에 대하여

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. -- William Saroyan

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -- Bertrand Russell

 

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer

 

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. -- Albert Camus

 

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller

 

희망에 대하여

Hope is the poor man's bread. -- George Herbert

 

Hoe springs eternal in the human breast; / Man never is, but always to be blest. -- Alexander Pope

 

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder. -- Carl Sandburg

 

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. -- Eric Hoffer

 

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Bacon

 

야망에 대하여

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. -- Kahlil Gibran

 

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. -- Goethe

 

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. -- Plutarch

 

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handed at a time. -- Winston Churchill

 

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -- St. Francis de Sales

 

용기에 대하여

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

 

There is no such things as bravery; only degree of fear. - John Wainwright

 

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

 

One man with courage makes majority. - Andrew Jackson

 

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. - Jean Anouilh

 

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts. - Cervantes

 

Many become brave when brought to bay. - Norwegian Proverb

 

O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed; and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr

 

성공에 대하여

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. -- Benjamin Disraeli

 

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau

 

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. -- Artur Rubinstein

 

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. -- Voltaire

 

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. -- Albert Einstein

 

미래에 대하여

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

One must care about a world one will not see. -- Bertrand Russell

 

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. -- Walter Lippman

 

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -- Marcus Aurelius

 

The world will be saved by one or two people. -- Andre Gide

 

운명에 대하여

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. -- Seneca

 

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. -- Marcus Aurelius

 

Whatever limits us we call Fate. -- Ralph W. Emerson

 

Certain signs precede certain events. -- Cicero

 

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it. -- Henry Miller

 

인내에 대하여

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. -- Jean de la Fontaine

 

Hasten slowly. -- Augustus Caesar

 

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. -- Comte de Buffon

 

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. -- George Jackson

 

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things. -- Vincent McNabb

 

지혜에 대하여

A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. -- Baltasar Gracian

 

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - Wait and hope. -- Alexandre Dumas, the Elder

 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

Wisdom comes alone through suffering. -- Aeschylus

 

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. -- Adlai Stevenson

 

정의에 대하여

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, not by those of another. -- Odell Shepard

 

The strict justice is sometimes the greatest injustice. -- Terence

 

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. -- St. augustine

 

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. -- Winston Churchill

 

There is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

천재에 대하여

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov

 

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. -- Ralph W. Emerson

 

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -- Anon.

 

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. -- William James

 

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. -- Pablo Picasso

 

 

무식에 대하여

When idea is wanting, a word always be found to take its place. - Goethe

 

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. - Goethe

 

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair. - Konrad Adenauer

 

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet. - Anon

 

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. - Sacha Guitry

 

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. - John Lyly

 

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott

 

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. - Will Rogers

 

 

지식에 대하여

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge. -- Rutherford D. Rogers

 

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. -- Albert Schweitzer

 

The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects. -- Martin H. Fisher

 

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell

 

Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon

 

교육에 대하여

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. -- Brander Matthews

 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach the man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. -- Chinese proverb

 

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. -- Latin proverb

 

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yeats

 

You ca lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. -- Finley Peter Dunne

 

Education is not the filling a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

 

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. - Joseph Joubert

 

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. - Indian Proverb

 

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana

 

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters. - George Herbert

 

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. - Marvin Minsky

 

You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. - Finley Peter Dunne

 

 Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. - Greek Proverb

 

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. - John Ruskin

 

Universities are the last cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. - Davis Lodge

 

진리에 대하여

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. -- Confucius

 

Truth is a child of Time. -- Don Ford / Time tries truth. -- English proverb

 

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. -- Boris Pasternak

 

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde

 

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. -- Albert Einstein

 

능력과 성취에 대하여

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -- Helen Keller

 

The difference between what we do and what we capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. -- Gandhi

 

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do. -- Lin Yutang

 

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Holmes. Jr.

 

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. -- Horace

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost

 

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -- Robert Kennedy

 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -- Theodore Roosevelt

 

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. -- Edgar Howe

 

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. -- Louis Pasteur

 

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. -- Ralph W. Emerson

 

 

과학에 대하여

Science is what you  know, philosophy is what you don't know. -- Bertrand Russell

 

To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. __ Carl Sagan (astronomer)

 

 As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein

 

 Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. -- Robert Oppenheimer

 

Light is ultimate messenger of the universe. -- BBC World Service

 

 Reason, observation, and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science. -- Robert Ingersoll

 

 Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 

 Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. -- B. Fuller

 

 What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited by what you can dream. -- Mike Melville

 

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today. -- Ronald Reagan

 

변화에 대하여

There is nothing permanent except change. -- Heraclitus

 

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. -- Juan R. Jimenez

 

 Change must be measured from a known base line. -- Evan Shute

 

All things must change to something new, to something strange. -- Henry W. Longfellow

 

 Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. -- Eric Hoffer

 

TV에 대하여

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? -- Nicholas Johnson

 

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. -- Art Buchwald

 

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. -- David Frost

 

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy. -- Lord Reith

 

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. -- C. P. Scott

 

상상력에 대하여

 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. -- Alfred North Whitehead

 

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em. -- Mary Webb

 

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. -- W. Somerset Maugham

 

신념과 믿음에 대하여

 Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. - Bishop Francis Kelly

 

A belief is not merely an  idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. - Robert Bolton

 

 I love an opposition that has convictions. - Frederick the Great

 

 A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. - Norman Douglas

 

Every dogma has its day. - Abraham Rotstein

 

Believe not your own brother - believe, instead, your own blind eye. - Russian proverb