Thousand Things Quotes

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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. — Thomas A. Edison
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. — Antonio Porchia
Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and… — Laozi
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what… — Frederick Franck
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to. — Antonya Nelson
A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong. — Albert Einstein
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er… — Robert Browning
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each… — Laozi
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother. — Andrea Gibson
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. — William Godwin
Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in… — Zhuangzi
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where… — Samuel Johnson
The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things… — Sengcan
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. — Robert Dale Owen
Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do. — Monica Potter
Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them. — Laozi
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles

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