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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. -- Hartley Coleridge
Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch. -- Paul McCulley
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. -- Thomas Carlyle
Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos. -- Thomas de Quincey
People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him. -- Pope John Paul II
Rightly tired of the pain Ä° hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If Ä° could end it, Ä° would. But Ä° can't. -- Stephen King
Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse. -- Priyavrat Thareja
Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte. -- Arthur Bryant
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. -- Theodor Adorno
It is not living that matters, but living rightly. -- Socrates
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! -- Elizabeth Gaskell
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. -- Plato
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. -- Mark Twain
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- Winston Churchill
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. -- Alvin Adams
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources. -- Francesco Guicciardini
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. -- Martin Luther
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. -- Eckhart Tolle
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. -- Edmund Barton
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. -- Winston Churchill
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. -- Gerard De Nerval
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating. -- J. G. Ballard
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. -- James Allen
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. -- Barry Goldwater
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. -- Orson Pratt
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. -- Sri Aurobindo
Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest. -- Saint Ignatius
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. -- Mitt Romney
Everything is surprising, rightly seen. -- A. S. Byatt
Riches, rightly used, breed delight. -- Plautus
ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. -- Nellie Bly
I rightly pass for an atheist. -- Jacques Derrida
As God once said, and I think rightly... -- Bernard Law Montgomery
The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly. -- Benjamin Franklin
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. -- Karl Kraus
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. -- Thomas Carlyle
I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . . -- Rumi
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. -- Bertrand Russell
Never be within doors when you can rightly be without. -- Charlotte Mason
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. -- Jose Rizal
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so. -- Pete Sampras
The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust. -- Abraham Lincoln
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. -- Pope Pius XII
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. -- John Ruskin
No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. -- Justin Martyr
Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true. -- Joan Robinson
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please. -- Philip Sidney
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. -- Henry David Thoreau
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. -- James Russell Lowell
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. -- William Jennings Bryan
Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. -- Susan Cain
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. -- Augustus De Morgan
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. -- Alexander Pope
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness... -- Millard Kaufman
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. -- John Milton
. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set. -- Benjamin E. Mays
If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one. -- Amit Kalantri
Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so. -- Maurice Saatchi
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. -- George Bernard Shaw
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. -- Will Self
No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it. -- Alfred Austin
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.) -- Henry Royce
If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. -- Danny Boyle
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. -- Plato
God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases. -- Joel Beeke
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. -- Robert Grudin
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. -- John Paul II
Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven. -- David Platt
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. -- John Paul II
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. -- Eugene Delacroix
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. -- George Washington
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. -- Winston Churchill
Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge. -- Jim Rohn
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly. -- Eric Butterworth
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. -- John Ruskin
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. -- Henry David Thoreau
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. -- Woodrow Wilson
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so. -- Michael Gove
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay. -- Petrarch
This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly. -- Brigham Young
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. -- Stella Benson
To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions. -- Walter Pater
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit. -- Martin Luther
The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions. -- George Washington
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous. -- Henry Chester
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. -- William Randolph Hearst
Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill. -- Emmet Fox
It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position -- Vladimir Kramnik
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. -- Edmund Hillary
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours. -- John Ruskin
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Daily grace and power of the Holy Spirit must be desired for living rightly and humbly. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. -- Maria Montessori
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today. -- Wendell Berry
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel. -- Wayne Pacelle
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. -- David Steindl-Rast
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so. -- George Ball
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. -- Thomas Carlyle
There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly. -- Nelson Mandela
The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn. -- Robert Teeter
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. -- Charlotte Bronte
In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. -- John James Audubon
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. -- Samuel Johnson
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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