(1168 quotes found)
“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
Albert Einstein
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
C.S. Lewis
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
Oscar Wilde
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright”
Blaise Pascal
“How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption”
Kurt Cobain
“The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”
Maya Angelou
“We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.”
Dave Barry
