Criterion Quotes

121 quotes by 105 authors

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of… — Christopher Alexander
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude.… — Denis Waitley
Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such… — Rajneesh
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over. — Ramana Maharshi
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever… — Rajneesh
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your… — Denis Waitley
So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love,… — Rajneesh
Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity. — Rajneesh
God evaluates by this criterion: How much love you invest in what you do is more important than how you do. The one who loves… — Thomas a Kempis
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you.… — Peace Pilgrim
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make… — A.J. Ayer
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of… — Bede Griffiths
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day. — Umar
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and… — Lewis Mumford
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems… — Janet Lembke

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