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.
“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings—their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)