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You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
Henry David Thoreau
Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
Orson Scott Card
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
Aldous Huxley
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. p. 108.
Bertrand Russell
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us.
Blaise Pascal
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
