Depth Quotes
1523 quotes by 1136 authors
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Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
— Rudolf Steiner
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It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is…
— Thomas Merton
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Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not…
— Jennifer James
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In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy…
— Alice Hegan Rice
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The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to…
— Paul Tillich
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At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
— Winston Churchill
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The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities,…
— Edward Robert Harrison
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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
— Bertrand Russell
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
— Bertrand Russell
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The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
— Johannes Tauler
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Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author;…
— Ernesto Sabato
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of…
— Bob Brown
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The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
— Maureen O'Hara
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I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that…
— Ariel Gore
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Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus…
— Max Beckmann
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I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a…
— Jason Chaffetz
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
— Bill Condon
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