Quotes with being

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1877.

  • William James Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bayard Taylor Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Paul Tillich Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Otto von Bismark Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Plutarch Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Walter Lippmann Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Marston Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
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  • Anne Seward Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mary MacCracken Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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  • Robert Thibodeau Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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