Quotes about Association

Solomon said if you want to be wise you run with the wise; if you want to be a fool, you run with fools.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

of all things, the greatest, and most important, and most all-embracing, is this society in which human beings and God are associated together. From this are derived the generative forces to which not only my father and grandfather owe their origin, but also all beings that are born and grow on the earth, and especially rational beings, [5] since they alone are fitted by nature to enter into communion with the divine, being bound to God through reason.

Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?

I see a lot of parallels between my father and Donald Trump.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most