Alone Quotes
10353 Alone quotes by 5028 unique authors
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or…
— Joseph Hall
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
— Joshua Reynolds
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The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are…
— James Jeans
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
— David Hume
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
— Sam Abell
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in…
— Sugata Mitra
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I am never less alone than when alone.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
— Eugene Delacroix
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That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him…
— Ramana Maharshi
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And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
— Chris Cornell
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