Impressions Quotes

311 quotes by 255 authors

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. — Saul Bellow
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier… — Charlotte Bronte
Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. — Jeb Bush
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of… — Lee Child
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. — Kate Chopin
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart… — Immanuel Kant
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This… — Adi Shankara
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. — William James
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather… — Edward Albee
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. — Walter Pater
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only… — John Taylor Gatto
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and… — Samuel Johnson
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness… — Benjamin Franklin
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis

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