Attained Quotes

394 quotes by 282 authors

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths… — Morihei Ueshiba
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. — Voltaire
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. — Thomas J. Watson
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil
Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties? — Lou Andreas-SalomÃ©
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as… — Daniel Quinn
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one… — Man Ray
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. — Sri Aurobindo
What whites have rarely had to think aboutâ€”because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort… — Tim Wise
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living. — Thomas Merton
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"… — Theodore Roosevelt
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. — Arthur C. Clarke
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Arthur Schopenhauer
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find,… — C.S. Lewis
To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak… — Emile M. Cioran

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