Bion Quotes

#1. Bion insisted on the principle that The property of friends is common.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#2. Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

Wilfred Bion

#4. Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Wilfred Bion

#5. Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Wilfred Bion

#6. Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

Wilfred Bion

#7. To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

Wilfred Bion

#8. The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#9. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

Muhammad Yunus

#11. The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

Bion Of Smyrna

#12. A good leader makes a good follower.

Wilfred Bion

#13. It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#14. To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Wilfred Bion

#15. Jest with your equals.

Bion Of Smyrna

#16. The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Wilfred Bion

#17. The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

Gloria Furman

#18. Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#19. Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#20. Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#21. Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Wilfred Bion

#22. Wealth is the sinews of success.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#23. The road to Hades is easy to travel.

Wilfred Bion

#24. Beauty is a possession not our own.

Bion Of Smyrna

#25. We can't spend our lives wondering, 'what if?' We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones

Eve Silver

#26. The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

Wilfred Bion

#27. Happy is love or friendship when returned
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

Bion Of Smyrna

#28. Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Wilfred Bion

#29. If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

Swami Vivekananda

#30. Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

Bion Of Borysthenes

#31. We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

Wilfred Bion

#32. It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

Wilfred Bion

#33. Wisdom or oblivion - take your choice. From that warfare there is no release.

Wilfred R. Bion

#34. Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.

Bion Of Smyrna

#35. The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

Wilfred Bion

#36. Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

Andy Cohen