I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In how many minds
should I go crazy?
Whom should I ask?”
“In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.”
“In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and defend one another, it will have been increased through natural selection; for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring.”
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.”
Source: East of Eden
“In human affairs there is no room for certainty”
Source: Aeneid, Books VII-XII
“In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.”
“In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.”
Source: Three essays on the theory of sexuality
“In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.”
Source: The Furious Longing of God
“In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.”
Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
“In human contests second place is coveted, in nature second place is lunch.”
“In human eyes, even in lithographic ones, there's something terrible: the inevitable warning of consciousness, the silent shout that there's a soul there.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“In human history there a precious few whose memory we revere because they knowingly sacrificed themselves for others. For each of them, there are multitudes who did nothing.”
Source: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
“In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.”
“In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.”
“in human life moral values should count more than anything else”
Source: An Indian Pilgrim
“In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.”
“In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.”
“In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.”
“In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.”
“in human males, testosterone appears to promote behavior intended to dominate other people. This behavior can be expressed aggressively, even violently, as well as nonaggressively. Testosterone levels, even a single baseline measurement, correlate well with dominance behavior, that is, testosterone not only affects dominance behavior but also responds to it.”
Source: Biology of Aggression
“In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.”
Source: Autobiography
“In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.”
Source: The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter
“In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
“In human rights theory it is very important that governments still have the primary responsibility for the standards and provision of such services even if they no longer deliver them. They must insist that the private sector delivers without discrimination. So governments still have responsibility, including the need to influence business.”
“In human smile lies human heaven.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“In human society, thinking’s the greatest transgression of all.”
Source: I Married a Communist
“In human terms, think of AI as an ‘intelligent machine.’ While various definitions exist, at its core, AI is about machines performing tasks typically done by humans, predominantly making predictions. Will you buy a new dress? What’s tomorrow’s weather? Will a stock price rise or fall? Is that a cat or a dog in the picture? Draft an email for a job application or even paint a picture of your favorite vacation spot in the style of Monet.”
“In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.”
“In humankind, if one breaches the common don’ts of not harming others or the collective for individual gain, the butterfly effect can compromise the entire cosmic order.”
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.”
Source: Relational Ontology
“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and because you loved each other, that means when the person is no longer in the outer world, they still physically exist—in the wiring of the neurons of your brain.”
Source: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
“In humans, security motivation often involves heightened perceptions of responsibility, and failing to avert a preventable threat may lead to painful feelings of guilt.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.”
“In Hume, Rationalism and scepticism existed peacefully side by side. Scepticism was for the study only, and was to be forgotten in the business of practical life. Moreover, practical life was to be governed, as far as possible, by those very methods of science which his scepticism impugned. Such a compromise was only possible for a man who was in equal parts a philosopher and a man of the world; there is also a flavour of aristocratic Toryism in the reservation of an esoteric unbelief for the initiated. The world at large refused to accept Hume’s doctrines in their entirety. His followers rejected his scepticism, while his German opponents emphasized it as the inevitable outcome of a merely scientific and rational outlook. Thus as the result of his teaching British philosophy became superficial, while German philosophy became anti-rational—in each case from fear of an unbearable Agnosticism. European thought has never recovered its previous whole-heartedness; among all the successors of Hume, sanity has meant superficiality, and profundity has meant some degree of madness. In the most recent discussions of the philosophy appropriate to quantum physics, the old debates raised by Hume are still proceeding.”
Source: The Will to Doubt
“In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.”
“In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“In humility is the greatest freedom. As soon as you begin to take yourself seriously and imagine that your virtues are important because they are yours, you become the prisoner of your own vanity and even your best works will blind and deceive you. Then, in order to defend yourself, you will begin to see sins and faults everywhere in the actions of other[s].”
“In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.”
“In humility, subjectivity and in the ability to see a series of elements from a distance; it may help you to focus your messaging in order to create a much stronger of an impact.
In some cases, when you are too close to your branding, messaging, marketing and your content, you may not be able to see the full picture or for that matter, the picture others are seeing.
Consider looking at how you are being perceived over focusing only on the intention of how you want to be seen.”
“In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.”
Source: Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey
“In humor, almost always, less is more.”
“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”
“In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.”
“In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.”
“In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.'”