Toward Quotes
3832 Toward quotes by 2364 unique authors
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Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can…
— Kurt Gödel
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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
— John Charles Polanyi
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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that…
— Eudora Welty
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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
— George Halas
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I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I…
— Henri Matisse
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We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,…
— Harry S. Truman
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown…
— Mark Epstein
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It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to…
— Dalai Lama
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the…
— Robert Kennedy
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere…
— Albert Einstein
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[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men…
— Clifford Geertz
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When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
— W. Clement Stone
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second…
— Albert Einstein
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True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change,…
— Dalai Lama
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Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.
— Cesar Chavez
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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that…
— Dalai Lama
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As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our…
— Dalai Lama
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