The wildest colts make the best horses.
Interpretation
Those who are naturally untamed or rebellious may grow to become the most strong and capable individuals.
This quote suggests that individuals who exhibit wild or unruly behavior, much like young colts, often possess great potential and strength. With the right guidance and experience, they can be transformed into remarkable leaders or achievers, just as wild horses, when tamed, can become powerful and skilled riding horses.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to highlight the importance of embracing individuality.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
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