Quotes with attain

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  • George Bernard Shaw If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William James If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Billy Corgan In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Swami Brahmananda In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Søren Kierkegaard It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Les Brown It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • John Donne Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bhagavad Gita O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Paul Klee Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William Hazlitt The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Russell Lynes The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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