The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Interpretation
A person's true honesty is reflected in their self-assessment rather than their financial statements.
This quote suggests that true honesty goes beyond formal declarations like tax returns and is better revealed through how individuals perceive themselves in everyday situations, such as their weight on a scale. It emphasizes the idea that our personal integrity is reflected in our private lives and the honesty we maintain about ourselves when no one is watching.
In practice
This quote can be used in a personal development seminar to illustrate the importance of self-reflection.
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.
Do not act following customary beliefs.
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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