Calumniated Quotes

#1. A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#2. A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Herodotus

#3. I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

Marietta Holley

#4. You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.

Paul Ekman

#5. [Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

Nicholas Negroponte

#6. Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.

Mariam Naficy

#8. We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.

Alain De Botton

#9. You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Deepak Chopra

#10. An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

Peter Drucker

#11. City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

Leon Trotsky

#12. The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

John Bradshaw

#13. If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

Maria Montessori

#14. Oh God, let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Let me love for love's sake!

Diane Wolkstein

#15. As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in.

Garth Nix