The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
Annie Leibovitz

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer