Attained Quotes
394 quotes by 282 authors
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This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers,…
— John Milton
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they…
— Walter Raleigh
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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little…
— William Osler
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from…
— Lorenz Oken
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[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother…
— Theodore Parker
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How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of…
— Bertha von Suttner
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We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the…
— Kim Ji-woon
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The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet…
— Max Heindel
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can…
— Joseph Story
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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by…
— William Falconer
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This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way…
— Gustave Meyrink
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To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means…
— Charles Inglis
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But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity…
— Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
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A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which…
— Christopher Alexander
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