Yielding Quotes

127 quotes by 101 authors

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus… — Laozi
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… — John Burroughs
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. — Edmund Burke
While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the… — Michael Gazzaniga
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a… — H. L. Mencken
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear". — J. P. McEvoy
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding… — George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and… — Joseph Campbell
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they… — Laozi
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our… — Albert Schweitzer
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.… — James Hansen
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not… — Socrates
We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself… — Neal A. Maxwell
It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I deal with temptation by yielding to it. — Mark Twain
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are… — Marvin J. Ashton

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