Stifling Quotes

64 quotes by 63 authors

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would… — John Stuart Mill
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a… — Aldous Huxley
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe… — Soren Kierkegaard
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think… — Remy de Gourmont
I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I… — Shirley Manson
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. — Burt Lancaster
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. — Barry Lopez
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family,… — Russell Kirk
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of… — Kate Chopin
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing. — Zane Grey
At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it… — Adrian Goldsworthy
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. — Billy Strayhorn
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his… — Robert Browning
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal â€” it just feels stifling. — Jessica Valenti

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