Quotes with ourselves

Quotes 141 till 160 of 578.

  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Blaise Pascal If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Michel Foucault If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • E. M. Cioran If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • William Feather If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • John Adams If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Anthony Robbins If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • John Irving If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • William Winwood Reade If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Louise Lynn Hay If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
    Louise Lynn Hay
    American writer of books on personal growth (1926 - 2017)
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  • Angela Merkel If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Schopenhauer If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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  • Leo Buscaglia If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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