When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.

Antonin Sertillanges
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More Quotes By Antonin Sertillanges
  1. The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

  2. We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

  3. A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

  4. Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

  5. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

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