Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
—Immanuel Kant
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
—Aristotle
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
—Aristotle
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
—Thomas Edison
We must accept his (Jesus) person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant.
—John Flavel
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.
—George Washington
There’s no salvation for a person who’s certain of his righteousness. If someone points out his sins he only gets angry and commits a new one.
—Leo Tolstoy
In Christ! Let me entreat every serious person once more to fix his attention here.
—John Wesley
An argument never persuades anyone; it divides and embitters people. An argument influences a person’s opinion like a hammer influences a nail.
—Leo Tolstoy
Fundamentalism has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Spirit. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught.
—AW Tozer
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
—Marcus Aurelius
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
—Albert Einstein
To forgive doesn’t mean to say, ‘I forgive you,’ but to tear from your heart every reproach and shred of anger against the person who hurt you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Strive to be Christ-like, if ever you would be lovely in the eyes of God and man. Certainly, my brethren, it is only the Spirit of Christ within you, and the beauty of Christ upon you, which can make you lovely persons.
—John Flavel
We can have no saving benefit separate and apart from the person of Christ: many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too.
—John Flavel
Go to your pastor and ask him if there is some work he would like to have you do for him in the church. Be a person that your pastor can depend upon.
—R. A. Torrey
…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We never love a person, but only qualities.
—Blaise Pascal
Very little is required to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is not necessary to anyone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beware of the person of one book
—Thomas Aquinas
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
—Carl Jung
There is no such division in the external operations of God that any one of them should be the act of one person, without the concurrence of the others
—John Owen
True compassion begins only when you imagine yourself in the place of the person who’s suffering and experience true pain.
—Leo Tolstoy
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Love—not love toward a specific person but the spiritual condition of readiness to love everything—is the only condition in which we are conscious of the true spiritual source of our souls.
—Leo Tolstoy