Meaning Quotes
4592 quotes by 2859 authors
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
— Hannah Arendt
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
— Karen Armstrong
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
— Margaret Atwood
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what…
— Saint Augustine
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he…
— Sai Baba
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
— Richard Bach
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the…
— Ansel Adams
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the…
— Ansel Adams
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I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order…
— Toni Cade Bambara
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
— Dennis Banks
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The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
— Javier Bardem
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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
— Syd Barrett
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the…
— Georges Bataille
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
— Samuel Adams
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people,…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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