Immaterial Quotes

63 Immaterial quotes by 58 unique authors

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give… — Henry Ward Beecher
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in… — Ambrose Bierce
When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money… — G. Edward Griffin
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's… — Daniel Dennett
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of… — Heraclitus
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus… — Gregor Mendel
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of… — Ludwig von Mises
Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is… — Frederick Lenz
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it… — Quintilian
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the… — Eugene O'Neill
When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are. — Frederick Lenz
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a… — Boman Irani
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition… — Brian Eno
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that… — Sam Harris
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it… — Ramana Maharshi
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world… — John Adams
My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind. — Terry Pratchett
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which… — Aleister Crowley
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably… — Maya Angelou
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better… — Madeleine L'Engle
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a… — Steven Pinker
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it… — Walpola Rahula
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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