Yielding Quotes
127 quotes by 101 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.
— Mark Twain
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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
Who Wrote These Yielding Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 127 Yielding Quotes, led by these top contributors: