Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if… — Jean Paul
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. — Voltaire
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what… — Bernard Baruch
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all… — H. P. Blavatsky
Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as… — Luci Shaw
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions,… — Louis of Granada
Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you… — Dominic Savio
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this… — James L. Kraft
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made… — Unknown Author
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell
A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems. — Michael K. Simpson
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest… — Unknown Author
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater… — Charles Spurgeon
We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. — Marquis de Custine
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you… — G. Alan Marlatt
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of… — William Bayliss

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