Identity Quote by Dervla Murphy Download Open image ““Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are”” — Dervla Murphy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity Learning Past Present
“We need to look carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is… — Daniel Simons Copy Share Image
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A careful observation of ourselves would immensely simplify life, and would make many things much clearer to us.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“what was their relevance, how could they help us and inform the way we worked together.” — Ben Hunt-Davis Copy Share Image
“Understanding how little we know is crucial to gaining knowledge.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
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