Inward Quotes
476 quotes by 359 authors
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
— Deepak Chopra
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
— John Stuart Mill
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It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination,…
— Colman McCarthy
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
— Bertrand Russell
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A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which,…
— Khalil Gibran
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Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
— Elizabeth Carter
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his…
— Walt Whitman
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
— Seneca the Younger
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The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power…
— Dalai Lama
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Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Who Wrote These Inward Quotes
359 authors contributed a total of 476 Inward Quotes, led by these top contributors: