There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
John Milton

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid

Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert Spencer

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
Dick Cheney

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
Thomas S. Monson

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Lane Allen