Thus Quotes
2771 Thus quotes by 1600 unique authors
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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media…
— John Donne
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Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other…
— James E. Faust
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Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time...…
— Stonewall Jackson
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It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those…
— Laozi
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There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to…
— Dalai Lama
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There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as…
— Swami Vivekananda
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But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
— Robin Williams
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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an…
— Jean Piaget
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How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being,…
— Francis Frangipane
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A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity…
— John Jay Chapman
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By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,…
— William Stanley Jevons
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The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
— Henry David Thoreau
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For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's…
— Robert Burns
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There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many…
— Michio Kaku
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
— Blaise Pascal
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He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake,…
— Richard Barnfield
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