Best Similarly Sayings
228 Similarly quotes by 192 unique authors
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When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them…
— Thubten Chodron
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will…
— Maximus the Confessor
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So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing…
— Brian D. McLaren
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When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you…
— Muso Soseki
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Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often…
— Scott E. Page
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The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its…
— Michel Chion
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There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and…
— Gerald Jay Sussman
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The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental…
— E. Fuller Torrey
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The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL…
— Peter Drucker
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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the…
— Doug Bandow
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If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are…
— Tom Regan
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Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on…
— Chanakya
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I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office…
— Deepika Padukone
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words…
— Oliver Burkeman
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Changing the world is like trying to straighten a dog's tail. However much you may try, you won't succeed. But although the tail won't straighten,…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary…
— Aldous Huxley
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What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes…
— Chanakya
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If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a…
— David G. McAfee
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When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice…
— Michael Beckwith
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In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole…
— Ernst Mach
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But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have…
— Gerhard Richter
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