"Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure,……" — Rene Dubos

More Abandoning Quotes

This quote is filed under Abandoning Quotes, one of 102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.… — Carlos Castaneda
• Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from… — Julia Hill
• The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every… — Jean Lorrain
• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving… — Allen Ginsberg
• Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start… — Katrina Kenison
• Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether. — Epictetus
• If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have… — Tom Regan
• Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to… — David Platt
• When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a… — Gautama Buddha
• A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,… — Gautama Buddha

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