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There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, namely, submission to faulty and un-worthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge. - Roger Bacon


Though one sits in meditation in a particular place, the Self in him can exercise its influence far away. Though still, it moves everywhere. The Self cannot be known by anyone who desists not from unrighteous ways, controls not his senses, stills not his mind, and practices not meditation. - Voltaire


In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope. - Henri Matisse


The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard


Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. - Simone Weil


A man who is hungry need never be told of his need for food. If he is inspired by his appetite, he is immune to the influence of Messrs. Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn. The latter are effective only with those who are so far removed from physical want that they do not already know what they want. - John Kenneth Galbraith


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams


The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the indi vidual? - Albert Einstein


Warning: Authorities warn that 'try' is a dangerous expression that has enormous power to influence your behaviour. It's toxic. Use it very carefully. When 'try' creeps into your language or into your thoughts, pluck it out quickly. - Walter Anderson


The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. [Over the Teacups] - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field. - Albert Einstein


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


Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier: 1. Don't, don't nag. 2. Don't try to make your partner over. 3. Don't criticize. 4. Give honest appreciation. 5. Pay little attentions. 6. Be courteous. 7. Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage. [How to Win Friends and Influence People] - Dale Carnegie


What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. - Henri Matisse


The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - Edward Morgan Forster