Seneca the Younger Quotes

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Pellegrini is always calm; if you have problems, he will try to resolve it.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

I believe everything has a solution, and I take it one day at a time or one thing at a time.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.