Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,…
— Leigh Hunt
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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.
— Marc Chagall
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
— Peter Ustinov
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When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as…
— Tom Glazer
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
— Albert Camus
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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.
— William Wordsworth
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aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the…
— A. P. Herbert
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Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world…
— Rick Bass
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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But…
— Michio Kaku
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
— Bertrand Russell
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples…
— Frank Chodorov
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
— James Madison
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known…
— Michael Faraday
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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