Quotes with not-self

Quotes 7581 till 7600 of 10786.

• The greatest Part of Business of the World, is the Effect of not thinking.

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  Edward F. Halifax
  British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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• The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

  L. Schefer
   
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• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  British poet (1340 - 1400)
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• The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

  Bryant H. McGill
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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• The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  Alfred A. Montapert
  American writer
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• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

  Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66

  Louise Erdrich
  American author (1954 - )
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• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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• The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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• The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

  Pensees

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.

  Beeban Kidron
  British filmmaker (1961 - )
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• The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.

  Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

  Sheldon Kopp
  American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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• The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

  Thornton T. Munger
  American scientist and environmentalist
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• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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• The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”

  The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-sufficient
• accomplished
• translate-he
• personified
• understands
• self-denial

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