A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere
French - Philosopher
1645 - 1696

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Bruce Lee

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Arthur Miller

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.

Scott Avett

Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

Douglas Pagels

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

Olivier Martinez

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

Octave Chanute

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

George Smoot

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

Robert M. Pirsig

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

Sylvia Plath

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

Edward Hirsch

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Bertrand Russell

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

Marianne Williamson

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