Universal Quotes

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Love all Godâ€™s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal… — Alexander Pope
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in… — Gregory Maguire
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. — William Shakespeare
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. — Julian Barnes
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. — Freya Stark
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly… — Peter S. Beagle
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf… — Deepak Chopra
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and… — Mark Twain
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best. — Paulo Coelho
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real… — Anne Lamott
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. — Oscar Wilde
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found… — Charles Darwin
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of… — Dan Brown
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave… — Stella Gibbons
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in… — Mark Steyn
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not… — James A. Baldwin

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