"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."
~~~~~ Alexander Pope
Showing posts with label shame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shame. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Thought for Today
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Thought for Today
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
~~~~~ Louis Kronenberger
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Thought for Today
"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."
~~~~~ Izaak Walton
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Thought for Today
"We need not worry so much about what man descends from – it's what he descends to that shames the human race."
~~~~~ Hal Boyle
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thought for Today
"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
~~~~~ Michel de Montaigne
Monday, December 9, 2013
Thought for Today
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
~~~~~ Louis Kronenberger
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Thought for Today
"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."
~~~~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (expressing his opinion of Obama?)
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thought for Today
"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
~~~~~ Paul Prudhomme
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thought for Today
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
~~~~~ Karl A. Menninger
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thought for Today
"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
~~~~~ Jonathan Swift
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