"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
― Marcus Aurelius
Topic(s):
Power
More From Marcus Aurelius
- "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
- "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
- "The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
More In Power
- "Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead."― Ambrose Bierce
- "I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system."― Oskar Schindler
- "Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic."― Alexis Carrel