Widening Quotes

88 quotes by 74 authors

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take… — Liz Carpenter
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the… — Carl Jung
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family.… — Isabella Rossellini
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love. — Margaret Mead
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute.… — Dorothy Day
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Â Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Â Ideally, we would be nurtured… — Julia Cameron
It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at… — Josh Schwartz
Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other. — Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base. — Ajay Devgan
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are… — Carrie P Snow
A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications… — Richard Louv
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of… — Nate Silver
I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was… — Clayton Hee
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. — Eknath Easwaran
Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the… — Flann O'Brien

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