Alone Quotes
10353 quotes by 5357 authors
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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
— Richard Courant
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What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and…
— Bruce Nauman
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
— Thomas Carlyle
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Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation…
— Neil Simon
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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 among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the…
— Andy Rooney
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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I want to be left alone.
— Greta Garbo
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of…
— Padma Lakshmi
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So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way,…
— Rajneesh
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Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it,…
— Rajneesh
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