Act According Quotes
38 Act According quotes by 32 unique authors
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
— Francis Bacon
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One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of…
— Takeda Nobushige
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response…
— Rajneesh
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Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
— Danila Kozlovsky
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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
— Aleister Crowley
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
— Umar
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.
— Lin Biao
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Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will…
— R. D. Laing
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not…
— Evo Morales
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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to,…
— Joseph Butler
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To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
— John Stuart Mill
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily…
— Donnie Yen
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