Quotes

“When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.” Deepak Chopra

“No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.” Deepak Chopra

“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.” Deepak Chopra

“So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.” Deepak Chopra

“Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.” Deepak Chopra

“We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.” Deepak Chopra

“And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.” Deepak Chopra

“From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.” Deepak Chopra

“My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.” Deepak Chopra

“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.” Deepak Chopra

“When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.” Deepak Chopra

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Charles Caleb Colton

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.” Charles Caleb Colton

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.” Charles Caleb Colton

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” Charles Caleb Colton

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” Charles Caleb Colton

“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.” Charles Caleb Colton

“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” Charles Caleb Colton