Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
– Malcolm Forbes
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- You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. – Malcolm Forbes
- To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
- I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. – Iain Banks
- Never undervalue who you are, and NEVER underestimate what you are capable of. – Auliq Ice
- Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. – JM Coetzee
- Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage. – Sherry Thomas
- Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue. – Don Elium
- A book without words is a mind without thought. – Catherine Forbes
- Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out. – BC Forbes
- They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things. – Erin Forbes
- Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary. – Erin Forbes
- Nightmares have a dreadful effect of captivating our minds during the waking hours. Nevertheless, they are merely fiction. – Erin Forbes
- There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold. – Erin Forbes
- It would seem very silly to start a conversation with a common hedgehog. They are not at all like cats, who surely understand the human language. – Erin Forbes
- It’s only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found. – John Forbes Nash Jr
- No act of kindness deserves a debt in return. – Erin Forbes
- The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan…. – Rosita Forbes
- Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for. – Esther Forbes
- … the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. – Malcolm X
- History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals. – Malcolm X
- All new news is old news happening to new people – Malcolm Muggeridge
- Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. – Malcolm X
- We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean – Malcolm Gladwell
- If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. – Malcolm X
- Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. – Malcolm Gladwell
- Well, it’s really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us…and nothing. – Malcolm Bradbury
- The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point. – Malcolm Gladwell
- Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship – Malcolm Bradbury
- One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. – Malcolm X
- The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. – Malcolm Muggeridge
- Ever day is a chance given to better your yesterday and brighten your tomorrow – Beverley Malcolm
- To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace – Malcolm X
- Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. – Malcolm X
- America’s racism is among their own fellow whites. That’s where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. – Malcolm X
- Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. – Malcolm Gladwell
- Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge’s Christmas party of fellow intellectuals. – William Donaldson
- Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one. – Malcolm Bradbury