Attained Quotes
394 quotes by 295 authors
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Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have…
— Marie-Luise Gothein
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of…
— Wilfred Trotter
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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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If you have truely attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
— Laozi
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those…
— Laozi
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It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year;…
— Walter Raleigh
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
— Samuel Johnson
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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed…
— Owen Feltham
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
— Samuel Johnson
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To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and…
— George Boole
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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws…
— Arthur Eddington
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And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though…
— John Herschel
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
— Swami Vivekananda
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization…
— Swami Vivekananda
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