Pure Quotes

2770 Pure quotes by 1744 unique authors

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid… — Richard Evans Schultes
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom… — Unknown Author
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize… — Adyashanti
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. — Adyashanti
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away… — Unknown Author
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and… — Alec Soth
Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned. — Gautama Buddha
When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out. — Bill Phillips
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as… — Amit Abraham
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective… — Ulysses S. Grant
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. — Charles Sanders Peirce
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to… — Muhammad Iqbal
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. — Albert Einstein
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage… — Charles Dudley Warner
America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies… — Woodrow Wilson
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives… — Tucker Viemeister
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest… — John Welwood
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to… — William Wordsworth
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in… — Roger Fry
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything,… — Peter Damian
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — H. L. Mencken
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of… — Lilian Whiting

Who Wrote These Pure Quotes

1,744 authors contributed a total of 2,770 Pure Quotes, led by these top contributors: