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Perhaps Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
- Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he…
- Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What,…
- The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
- I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk.…
- I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but…
- For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into…
- I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,…
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
- The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in…
- In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun