It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.
ll I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
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There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
From the end spring new beginnings.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.