Itself Quotes

2191 quotes by 1735 authors

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as… — William Ellery Channing
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. — John Milton
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. — Jacob Bronowski
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. — Carlos Fuentes
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. — Robert McNamara
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. — Felix Frankfurter
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself. — Norma Shearer
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There… — John Adams
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again. — Terry Venables
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports… — Avery Brundage
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. — Georges Bernanos
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. — Lord Byron
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait,… — Franz Kafka
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. — Winston Churchill
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names,… — Thomas Mann
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. — Liz Smith
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we… — Plato
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. — Quintilian
Fury itself supplies arms. — Virgil
A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among… — David Horowitz

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