We Find Quotes
1093 We Find quotes by 799 unique authors
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
— William Hazlitt
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Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
— Frederick Buechner
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"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To…
— Karl Pearson
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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
— Saint Augustine
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.…
— Thomas Huxley
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When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost…
— Joseph Campbell
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we…
— Cesar Chavez
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics…
— David Deutsch
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Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen…
— Prentice Mulford
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity…
— Swami Vivekananda
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BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and…
— Surya Das
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I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is…
— Francis Frangipane
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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;…
— John Flavel
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