Begets Quotes

164 quotes by 137 authors

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that… — Charles Darwin
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' — Immanuel Kant
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. — James Madison
Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work. — Dominic Monaghan
I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. — Suze Orman
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. — James Cash Penney
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. — John Podhoretz
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that… — Muhammad Yunus
Secrecy begets tyranny. — Robert A. Heinlein
Reading begets reading. — Nick Hornby
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets… — Mother Teresa
Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love. — William Shakespeare
â€¦all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. — Dante Alighieri
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. — Will Durant
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? — Fernando Pessoa
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. — Andre Gide
I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

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