Best Spontaneous Wisdom
399 Spontaneous quotes by 315 unique authors
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The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the…
— David Abram
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Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision,…
— Rajneesh
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We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.
— Glenn L. Pace
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To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.
— John Abercrombie
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic…
— Victor Hugo
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The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.
— Rae Armantrout
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The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The…
— Robert Willner
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I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot,…
— Mario Testino
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I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to…
— George Wald
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I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.
— Kelly Ripa
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Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of…
— F. David Peat
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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or…
— Jonas Mekas
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Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System,…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.
— Carrie Brownstein
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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
— Jeph Jacques
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A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a…
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just…
— Alice Steinbach
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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed…
— Ralph Ellison
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