Immediately Quotes
1460 quotes by 1163 authors
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
— Francis Bacon
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite…
— Jean Genet
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Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender it to the…
— Rajneesh
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell…
— Watchman Nee
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the…
— Rajneesh
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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
— Francis Crick
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of…
— Charles Babbage
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect…
— Tacitus
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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem…
— Steven Chu
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Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for…
— Louis Pasteur
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We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.
— Sri Chinmoy
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And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into…
— Rajneesh
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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