Rightly Quotes

405 Rightly quotes by 316 unique authors

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a… — Zadie Smith
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. — Freya Stark
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. — Henry David Thoreau
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use… — Eckhart Tolle
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most… — Geoff Mulgan
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.… — Franz Kafka
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness... — Millard Kaufman
Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine… — William Blake
Everything is surprising, rightly seen. — A. S. Byatt
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,… — Samuel Beckett
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time… — Rabindranath Tagore
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. — Bertrand Russell
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we… — Sam Harris
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for… — Meister Eckhart
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no… — Roland Barthes
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. — Bram Stoker

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