Ourselves Quotes

1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept… — Daniel Kahneman
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees. — Michio Kaku
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. — Thomas a Kempis
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of… — Robert Kennedy
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent.… — John Maynard Keynes
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul… — John Maynard Keynes
We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being… — Anthony Kiedis
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that… — Willem de Kooning
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent… — Charles Lamb
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for… — Aung San Suu Kyi
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. — R. D. Laing
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — Dalai Lama
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering… — Anne Lamott
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us… — Jaron Lanier
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and… — Jaron Lanier
If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to… — Queen Latifah
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct… — William Law
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get… — D. H. Lawrence
A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. — Spike Lee
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?… — John Lennon
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our… — John Lewis
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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