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One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. – Jean Kerr
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful joy softens more hearts than tears do. – Mme. de Sartory
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. – Bryant McGill
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. – Randall Jarrell
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. – Bryant McGill
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. – Bryant McGill
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. – Rabbi Harold Kushner
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. – Rabbi Harold Kushner
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing – such as a religion – as his own flag and carries it all his life and even dies for it! An intelligent man has only one flag: Flag of reason and science! – Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. – Dr. Karl Menninger
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. – Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. – Jack Penn
One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise. – John L. Casteel
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. – Andrew Carnegie
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. – Virginia
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. – Kin Hubbard
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. – Arnold Glasgow
One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. – Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

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