"Most of our faculties lie dormant because they……" — Marcel Proust

More Dormant Quotes

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• A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences.… — Richard M. Nixon
• Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful].… — Subhas Chandra Bose
• Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be… — Johann Gottfried Herder
• True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters… — Menno Simons
• Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in… — Mahatma Gandhi
• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded… — Nikola Tesla
• Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a… — Gian-Carlo Rota
• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument… — Mark Twain
• I'd rather die enormous than live dormant. — Jay-Z
• Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. — Gary Snyder
• Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to… — Hal Boyle
• What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing — Ishmael Reed

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