Outward Quotes

521 Outward quotes by 389 unique authors

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does… — Stephen Spender
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and… — John L. Phillips
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where… — Rabindranath Tagore
We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works… — Shakti Gawain
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion… — Bernie Siegel
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. — Kenneth Lee Pike
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have… — Michel Foucault
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and… — Max Born
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here… — Ellen Ullman
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul. — Francois Fenelon
I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things,… — Faith Prince
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil. — Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught;… — William Hughes Mearns
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — William Shakespeare

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