Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic… — Hugh Nibley
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence… — Adam Nicolson
The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history ...… — Herbert Butterfield
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the… — John C. Calhoun
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. — Martin Luther
To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet… — Mahatma Gandhi
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al — Al-Ghazali
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence. — Unknown Author
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong… — Bob Hawke
The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you. — Eva Cox
Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of… — Hugh Mackay
I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the… — Olivia Newton-John
The BEST representation of Source Energy that you will ever find in your physical format is inexpressible. It's that feeling of love and appreciation that… — Esther Hicks
The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. — Yitzhak Shamir
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the… — H. L. Mencken
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. — William Shenstone
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… — Baruch Spinoza
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of… — Angelo Patri
The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. — Harold Hayes
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. — John O'Hara

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