Volition Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will… — H. P. Blavatsky
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field… — William James
Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however,… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we… — Albert Einstein
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write,… — Minnie Driver
Iâ€™m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids… — Matt Bomer
Are you a personâ€”with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprisingâ€”or are you… — Stephen R. Donaldson
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts… — Edward Dahlberg
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… — Thomas Carlyle
Boys' connectionsâ€”to other people and to their selvesâ€”can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and… — Judy Chu
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government… — John Doolittle
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium… — Charles Sanders Peirce
My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not… — Jeffrey Hollender
Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core… — Jeffrey Tucker
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. — Eyvind Johnson
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of… — Mary Karr
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine… — Julian Jaynes

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