Quotes with guided

  • I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
  • We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
  • That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • John Locke Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Anthony Trollope I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Patrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • James Redfield Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
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  • Paracelsus Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • B. F. Harris Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brigham Young The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
    First Vision Journal of Discourses 8:354. (March 3, 1861)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Arthur Erickson The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Abraham Cowley We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John D. Mcdonald You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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