Quotable quotes: 11Reader’Digest (1984) Final

 

 Quotable quotes: 11Reader’Digest (1984) Final

200. What is obtained through violence must be lost to greater violence
201. Those who know how to succeed are far more numerous than those who know how to make good use of their victories
202. There are more storms within ourselves than on land or sea.
203. Faith is a stronger guide than reason. Reason goes up to a certain point, but faith has no limits.
204. When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks much.
205. Art is long, life is short, it is difficult to judge, and the opportunity is passing.
206. Worry is a circle of ineffective thoughts that revolve around a point of fear.
207. Man is a slow, disorderly, and brilliant persevering; the machine is fast exact and stupid.
208. Before, I dreamed of owning a little house in the country;

Today I dream of having a garage in the city.
209. There are two parts to any discussion, but some are endless.
210. What really counts is not what happens, but what happens to us.
211. The bad thing about people who leave a habit that usually keeps the precepts and puts them in a painting.
212. Cough and smoke cannot remain a secret.
213. Areas unexplored by man are not on continents and oceans; these are in the mind and heart of man.
214. He who occupies a place in another heart will never be alone.
215. Culture is one thing and varnish another.
216. We lost the war, said the loser; And the victor replied: It was worse to have lost peace.
217. Know exactly when the future can be introduced into the present; it is the secret of great government.
218. The bad thing about drugs is that they "broaden understanding," is that you cannot broaden what does not exist.
219. Civility is the art of selecting between our true thoughts.
220. Through the streets of ‘later you never get to the house.
221. One of the functions of intelligence is to take into account the dangers of relying only on intelligence.
222. Automation is the technological procedure that does all the work while we remain seated. As children, we called 'Mama'.
223. Example is the main factor in influencing. It is the only way to achieve it.
224 The hammer sometimes errs. A bouquet of flowers never.
225. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good deed quietly, and let it be discovered by accident.
226. The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
227. It gives proof of life to the person we want or want to hear when he is with us, and makes us think when he has already left.
228. Whoever dominates by force has only lived half.

Editor's Note: I pay tribute and admiration to all the writers of the 1984 edition of Reader’s Digest quotable quotes for whom I did not have the opportunity to name because the lack the material as a fundamental ethical principle.
With  affection,
Ruben