Cunningham Geikie quotes

“Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.”
-- Cunningham Geikie

Source : John Cunningham Geikie (1891). “The Life and Words of Christ”

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“Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts.”
-- Cunningham Geikie

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.”

Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.”

“The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.”

“Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.”

Source : "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.

“It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

“But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.30, Penguin

“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”