“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
Horace Mann
“What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.”
Emma Goldman
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain”
Mark Twain
“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.”
Chanakya
“Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?”
“Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.”
Felix Marti-Ibanez
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.”
Robert Herrick