Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VoltaireRead
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Interpretation
Appreciation allows us to connect with and value the excellence in others.
This quote by Voltaire highlights the power of appreciation in creating a sense of belonging and connection. When we appreciate the qualities and achievements of others, we not only recognize their excellence but also incorporate that value into our own lives, fostering a sense of community and shared experience.
In practice
During a team meeting, I quoted Voltaire to highlight the importance of appreciating each other's strengths.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.
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