Hence Quotes
772 Hence quotes by 523 unique authors
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Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
— Sun Tzu
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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the…
— Sun Tzu
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Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
— Sun Tzu
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On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and…
— Sun Tzu
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God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.
— Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we…
— Sun Tzu
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I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I…
— Kanye West
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side,…
— Alan Valentine
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Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you…
— Rajneesh
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Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.
— Rajneesh
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe…
— Alice Morse Earle
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our…
— Martin Luther
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It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
— Charles Darwin
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
— John Updike
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are…
— Charles Darwin
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I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
— Kanye West
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as…
— Eric Hoffer
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Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or…
— Theodore Dreiser
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence…
— H. L. Mencken
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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what…
— Jacques Barzun
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source…
— Carl Jung
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For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms…
— John Owen
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