A Quote by Agathon

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

Agathon

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Heart Improvement Mind Understanding

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Agathon
Poet
448 BC - 400 BC

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Supporting the people in our businesses is what we need to be thinking about. It's a no-brainer. It improves leadership. It improves productivity. It cultivates this entrepreneurship concept and improves retention.

Meena Harris

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

Epicharmus of Kos

We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.

Sri Chinmoy

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

C. S. Lewis

We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

Michelle Obama

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

Robert Blair

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.

Richard Dawkins

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

Yasser Seirawan

I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

Dan Coats

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

Nicole Krauss

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

Ameen Rihani

We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.