One Finds Quotes

100 One Finds quotes by 91 unique authors

One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and… — Unknown Author
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it. — Joan D. Chittister
I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One… — Theodore von Karman
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling… — Sarada Devi
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. — Bernard Lown
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates… — Robert Fitzgerald
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.… — Rebecca Mead
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that… — Pierre Bayle
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding… — Niels Henrik Abel
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some… — Robert Nozick
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. — Malcolm Bradbury
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just… — Percival Everett
Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something… — Meister Eckhart
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so… — Diane Ackerman
I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding. — John Searle
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one… — James Meade
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight. — Vincent Van Gogh
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. — Bernard Baruch
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no,… — Pearl S. Buck
If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. — Etty Hillesum
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… — John Drinkwater
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found… — George Saunders
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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