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If one does not dare to enter the tiger's lair, how can one obtain the tiger's cubs? If one does not dare to enter the tiger's lair, how can one obtain the tiger's cubs?

unknown author

courage | fear

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Always obtain things honestly; never use crooked means. Always obtain things honestly; never use crooked means.

unknown author

honesty | deceit

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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expe... - MORE How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.

Abigail Adams

service | social responsibility | ambition

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Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors.... If they only knew... - MORE Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors.... If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Jean Anouilh

men

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I have given the best of myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political freedom for women, knowing that upon this re... - MORE I have given the best of myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political freedom for women, knowing that upon this rests the hope not only of the freedom of men but of the onward civilization of the world.

Mary S. Anthony

freedom, political | civilization | woman suffrage movement

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Who can measure the advantages that would result if the magnificent abilities of these women could be devoted to the needs of gove... - MORE Who can measure the advantages that would result if the magnificent abilities of these women could be devoted to the needs of government, society and home, instead of being consumed in the struggle to obtain their birthright of individual freedom? Until this be gained we can never know, we can not even prophesy the capacity and power of women for the uplifting of humanity.

Susan B. Anthony

influence | woman suffrage movement

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The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able... - MORE The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to obtain the truth adequately, while on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth, and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it.

Aristotle

truth | method

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Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always ac... - MORE Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Aristotle

politics | society | teleology

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Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever�... - MORE Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.

Philippe Ariés

children in society, historical perspectives | parenting through history

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That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in g... - MORE That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.

George Berkeley

observation | causation | experience

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