Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. — Unknown Author
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth
There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do… — Mahatma Gandhi
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific… — Willard Van Orman Quine
I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly… — Richard Ernst
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that… — Douglas Horton
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill… — Charles Caleb Colton
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things… — Baruch Spinoza
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not… — Matthew Henry
In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present. — Danny DeVito
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing… — Gautama Buddha
Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity. — Gail Godwin
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. — Chuck Palahniuk
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. — Stephen Covey
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a… — Unknown Author
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and… — Samuel Johnson
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there… — Sigmund Freud
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. — David Foster Wallace
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By… — Evelyn Waugh
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be… — Christian Nestell Bovee
You must be present to win. — Alex Rodriguez
Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie. — Nick Denton
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality. — Jules Michelet

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