Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or level:
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)