Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Albert Pike

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset