Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
– Raheel Farooq
Related Quotes:
- One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them. – Raheel Farooq
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac
- Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. – Chris Matakas
- Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
- In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. – Marquis de Sade
- Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew. – Munindra Misra
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. – Henry David Thoreau
- Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. – Matthew Lewis
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. – Adam Smith
- Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart. – Raheel Farooq
- A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings. – Raheel Farooq
- Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality. – Raheel Farooq
- Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world. – Raheel Farooq
- Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else. – Raheel Farooq
- Children are prophets of nature. – Raheel Farooq
- Everyone is the right person for the right person. – Raheel Farooq
- That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic. – Raheel Farooq
- It’s not in the life, it’s in the living. – Raheel Farooq
- If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don’t believe the fact or it is not a fact. – Raheel Farooq
- Life feels good if you don’t know what it is. – Raheel Farooq
- All humans learn from each other’s mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them. – Raheel Farooq
- Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it. – Raheel Farooq
- Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go. – Raheel Farooq
- Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such. – Raheel Farooq
- Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite. – Raheel Farooq
- Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. – Raheel Farooq
- Knowledge cannot be maintained without character. – Raheel Farooq
- A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good. – Raheel Farooq
- The missing link between humans and apes? It’s certainly those brutes who haven’t yet learned to respect privacy. – Raheel Farooq
- Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. – Raheel Farooq
- Ideas can’t die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them. – Raheel Farooq
- The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth. – Raheel Farooq
- Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition. – Raheel Farooq
- The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at! – Raheel Farooq
- Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty. – Raheel Farooq
- Time is conscience of the universe. – Raheel Farooq