"The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery." »Lao-Tzu
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"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie
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"Class is material consumed." »John Trudell
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"Use disappointments as material for patience." »Unknown
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"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." »Bern Williams
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"If a man becomes too ambitious, considering material possessions,yet with a little moral elevation and understanding,he is more likely to become malicious." »lot chakonza
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"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
material place." »Emily Dickinson
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"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues." »Phillips Brooks
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"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material." »F Scott
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake." »E. M. Forster
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"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." »H. E. Martz
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"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."" »H. E. Martz
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"Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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""It seems to be a universal law; to the degree you give up your attachment to the material world, to the same degree you are filled with the joys of spirit."" »Harry Kovair
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"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life." »Eugene Peterson
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"We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty." »Euell Gibbons
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"The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man." »Paul Sweezy
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"I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow." »George Washington Carver
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"Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all" »Betty Naomi Friedan
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"An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." »Carl Jung
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings." »Jimmy Carter
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"Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot." »Robert Altman
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"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding." »Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
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