Ourselves Quotes

1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. — Blaise Pascal
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to… — Blaise Pascal
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington… — Ron Paul
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This… — Ron Paul
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only… — M. Scott Peck
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are… — Tom Peters
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the… — Freida Pinto
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that… — Max Planck
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. — Sylvia Plath
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. — Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. — Alexander Pope
The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never… — Steven Pressfield
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. — Marcel Proust
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. — Marcel Proust
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different… — Marcel Proust
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. — Marcel Proust
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. — Dan Quayle
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. — Robert Quillen
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they… — Anna Quindlen
I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those… — Zachary Quinto
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is… — Tariq Ramadan
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is… — Tariq Ramadan

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