I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
“What is the motive behind your services? If it is self-centered, self-serving, and lacking consideration for others, then earning people’s trust, rapport,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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