Earnest Quotes

332 Earnest quotes by 265 unique authors

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning… — Peter of Alcantara
The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more.… — Unknown Author
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who… — Confucius
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Unknown Author
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from… — Henry David Thoreau
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon… — William Ralph Inge
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest,… — Grenville Kleiser
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were… — Sinclair Lewis
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their… — Alexander Hamilton
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now… — George Washington
With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love… — Thomas Jefferson
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a… — Josh Billings
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not… — Confucius
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what… — Susan Sontag
I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I… — Claire Danes
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. — Joaquin Phoenix
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. — Emilio Estevez
There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does,… — Rex D. Pinegar
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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