Inward Quotes

476 quotes by 359 authors

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. — Marcus Aurelius
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
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
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. — Deepak Chopra
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. — Edward McKendree Bounds
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. — Seneca the Younger
The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward. — Sathya Sai Baba

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