Self Quotes

14166 quotes by 6503 authors

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That… — Eugene V. Debs
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I… — Suzan-Lori Parks
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales… — Ervin Laszlo
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. — Georges Bataille
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found… — Rudolf Virchow
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits… — Tom Chappell
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. — Sebastian Coe
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom. — John Viney
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt.… — Harvey Dorfman
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator,… — Genesis P-Orridge
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Cyril Ponnamperuma
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge,… — Antoine Lavoisier
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson

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