Accord Quotes · Page 2

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

— Khalil Gibran

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

— Elizabeth I

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

— Laini Taylor

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

— Laozi

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

— Christopher Ryan

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

— Luc de Clapiers

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

— Thornton Wilder

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

— Anonymous

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

— Thomas Jefferson

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of…

— Eckhart Tolle

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

— Ernest Sosa

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

— Hermann Hesse

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures…

— Marshall McLuhan

I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded of me...

— Walter Russell

When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all…

— John Hagelin

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are…

— Immanuel Kant

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.…

— Peace Pilgrim

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation,…

— Reid Bryson

Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about…

— Mooji

I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They…

— Sylvia Plath

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes…

— Alexander Pope

Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so…

— Paul Davies

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical…

— Laozi

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose,…

— H. P. Blavatsky

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is…

— St. Catherine of Siena

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit…

— Noam Chomsky

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed…

— John Calvin

We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living…

— August Weismann

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

— Charlotte Bronte

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

— Charles V

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

— John Cage

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

— Adolf Hitler

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

— Rajneesh

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Your mind, your heart, and your balls gotta be in one accord

— Kimbo Slice