Quotes with self-understanding

Quotes 721 till 740 of 876.

  • Imamu Amiri Baraka Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • David Hume Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Abu Sa'id To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Bell Hooks To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Denis Waitley To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Antoine Rivarol To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Bodhidharma To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • William James To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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