Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Heroes aren't perfect.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.

That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.

He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

Presence always wins out over principles.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.