Helps Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:

“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms.”
—Marquês De Pombal (1699–1782)