Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who…
— Eric Maisel
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Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and…
— John Bunyan
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it…
— Morris Kline
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We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden…
— Steven Weinberg
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When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps…
— Adolf Hitler
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is…
— Karl Popper
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what…
— Saint Augustine
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Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
— Jay Weatherill
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
— Honore de Balzac
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be…
— Eric Hoffer
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer…
— Li Ka-shing
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
— William Sloane Coffin
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age…
— Gerald Early
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
— Rose Macaulay
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A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you,…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,…
— Mark Helprin
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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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