Our Powers Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates…
— Francois Arago
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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means…
— Alice Duer Miller
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Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us,…
— Francois Fenelon
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The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on…
— Ilchi Lee
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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
— Seneca the Younger
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is…
— William Wordsworth
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
— William Shakespeare
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The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more,…
— Martin Luther
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Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of…
— Ronald Reagan
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Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and…
— Christina Rossetti
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Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
— Eugene Delacroix
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of…
— Hiroko Sakai
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations…
— John Dewey
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a…
— Helen Keller
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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is…
— William Wordsworth
Who Wrote These Our Powers Quotes
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