Quotes with self-understanding

Quotes 781 till 800 of 876.

  • Arianna Huffington We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Savage Landor We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Anita Brookner What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Epictetus What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Bryan Singer What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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