To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
Brian Tracy

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham