I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.”
Source: A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991
“In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.”
“In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss. Very Swiss.”
Source: Shantaram
“In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!”
“In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.”
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
Source: Aphorisms
“In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.”
Source: Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers
“In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!”
“In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.”
“In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.”
“In matters of love, spread kindness like a flower.”
“In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!”
“In matters of money, no man has enough.”
“In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.”
Source: Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can
“In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.”
“In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.”
“In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.”
“In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.”
“In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.”
“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”
Source: Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts
“In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.”
“In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Source: The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible
“In matters of the heart and endings, a man's character is defined not by the act of parting ways with a woman but by the honor or dishonor he chooses to cloak his farewell in.”
“In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.”
Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“In matters of the heart, I am clearly hopeless.” He puts down his final card—a prince. A wild card. I stare at him, stunned. It didn’t matter what I played. He would have won anyway. “In matters of strategy,” he finishes, “I am not.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.”
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
“In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.”
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.”
“In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.”
“In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.”
“In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also.”
“In Matthew 7:20 (KJV), we are taught a profound secret for discerning of the Spirit: "Where-fore by their fruits ye shall know them." This means that we look to the health of the part (the fruit) to gauge the health of the whole. A healthy tree will bear good fruit; an unhealthy tree will bear low-quality fruit.”
“In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.”
“In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?”
“In mature continuous improvement organizations, value stream managers are sometimes given responsibility for profit and loss across the value stream”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.”
“In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.”
“In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.”
“In May 1830, when in Paris alone with little Maurice, she found herself going to museums—the Louvre, the Luxembourg. It was not the first time, but she returned again and again, "as if drunk and nailed to the Titians, the Tintorettos, the Rubens." She suddenly responded to painting as she had long before to music. Whatever métier, whatever trade or profession she would choose, she knew she would be an artist—in letters, in life, in her very being.”
Source: Infamous Woman: the life of George Sand
“In May 1896, the thoughtful justices of the high court, men who help to clarify national standards for everyone, determine that "repellent intimacy" is a persuasive argument. The law of quarantine is affirmed.
"We think the enforced separation of the races. . .neither abridges the privileges or immunities of the colored man, deprives him of his property without due process of law, nor denies him the equal protection of the laws," writes associate justice Henry B. Brown in a 7-1 ruling. The main point, says Justice Brown, is that "legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts."
The encirclement is complete. Race quarantine becomes the custom in all the land. White supremacy is acclaimed in habit, in thought and in law.”
Source: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
“In May 1903, Bamba’s insistence on God as his sole master prompted the authorities to post the following “urgent” telegram: “Urgent. Marabout Ahmadou Bamba is making it known that he recognizes no other master but God, and refuses to be summoned for an interview … situation particularly serious.”
Source: Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba: A Peacemaker for Our Time
“In May 2018, Bill Gates, during an interview with MSNBC, said he convinced President Trump to stop looking into vaccines as a problem and to move away from using Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. as an adviser, which President Trump listened to and removed RFK Jr. from an advisory position at the White House.”
Source: COVID19 – Short Path to 'You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy.': Welcome to the New Age of Tyranny
“In May 2023, I bought my first 5G phone for environmental electromagnetic radiation research.”