Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
William HazlittRead
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Interpretation
Experience provides deeper understanding than mere speculation.
The quote emphasizes that personal experience is far more valuable and informative than theoretical knowledge or descriptions provided by others. It suggests that true understanding comes from firsthand experiences rather than assumptions or secondhand information, highlighting the importance of actively engaging with the world.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of learning through experience.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
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