Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

    Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Chinese were born ... with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
    Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)