I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
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Unknown
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever...
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Douglas Coupland
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives–of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Charles Darwin
And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.
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Mary Howitt
More Quotes By Will Durant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather...
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
