Widening Quotes
88 quotes by 74 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
— Margaret Mead
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.
— Ajay Devgan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
— Eknath Easwaran
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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
Who Wrote These Widening Quotes
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