Quotes about "Diversity & Inclusion"

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me. ”

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ”

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ”

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ”

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. ”

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ”

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ”

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ”

No human creature can give orders to love. ”

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. ”