I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Isolated, confined, allowed only small amounts of certain foods and drink, taught that her body is powerful but contaminated, a girl learns that she has power - to pollute: in such cultures, menstrual blood is a source of horror and fear. Menstruation symbolises female power, considered destructive to men. If female power can destroy men, women are men's enemies, and the condition of the sexes is a state of war.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.”
Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .”
Source: Collected Works
“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.”
Source: Sybil
“Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.”
“Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.”
Source: Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution
“Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.”
“Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.”
“Isolation allows me to think more clearly, and I think out loud sometimes.
After all, I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of plagiarism.”
“Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.”
Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris
“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”
Source: I Loved You All
“Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.”
“Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.”
“Isolation breeds conceit.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner
“Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul.”
“Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.”
Source: The Magic Will: Stories and Essays
“Isolation gives time but not immunity.”
“Isolation
Half remembered of my home and kites,
Last night, with a lonely sense of fight
Started again to rework my poor life
Rejection
Yielded with blossoms - No free blossoms
Swift to the glare and noise to the town
Boy, may your strength never die”
Source: Comfortable in the Chaos
“Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness. The presence of another person – of any person whatsoever – instantly slows down my thinking, and while for a normal man contact with others is a stimulus to spoken expression and wit, for me it is a counterstimulus, if this compound word be linguistically permissible. When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Yes, talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial, and in them intelligence gleams like an image in a mirror.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Isolation, I was reminded again and again, is a danger. But what if one's real context is in books? Some days, going from one book to another, preoccupied with thoughts that were of no importance, I would feel a rare moment of serenity: all that could not be solved in my life was merely a trifle as long as I kept it at a distance. Between that suspended life and myself were these dead people and imagined characters. One could spend one's days among them as a child arranges a circle of stuffed animals when the darkness of night closes in.”
Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”
“Isolation is a big part of songwriting.”
“Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.”
“Isolation is a dream killer.”
“Isolation is a self-defeating dream.”
“Isolation is a way to know ourselves.”
“Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.”
“Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set
“Isolation is inevitable when you surround yourself with those who do not share your values.”
“Isolation is my COVID-19 insurance policy.”
“Isolation is survival.”
“Isolation is the dream killer.”
Source: Refuse To Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
“Isolation is the enemy of the unemployed.”
“Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.”
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
Source: Past and Present
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”
“Isolation ist nicht die Höchstform von Exsistenz und Stille nicht die Abhandlung von Zeit.”
Source: Was fehlt, wenn ich verschwunden bin
“Isolation kills more than the free flow of ideas. It kills joy.”
Source: The Best of Nancy Kress
“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.”
“Isolation must precede true society.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.”
“Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.”
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”
Source: The Lowland
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”
“Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“Isolation taught me lessons that no amount of noise, distractions, or crowds ever could. In solitude, I discovered the depth of my own thoughts, the strength I never knew I had, and the clarity to see what truly matters. Sometimes, being alone isn’t loneliness, it’s a journey to self-awareness, growth, and an unshakable understanding of life.”
“Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.”
“Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began to call up memories of places, people, events, food-anything I could do to occupy my mind and remind myself that, even if I was being treated like an animal, I was still a living breathing human being.”
“Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.”
“Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to power. The campaign for Brexit succeeded by using the metaphor "take back control," and no wonder: everyone wants more control in a world where events on the other side of the planet can affect jobs and prices in our local towns and villages. But did the removal of Britain from the European Union give the British more power to shape the world? Did it prevent foreign money from shaping U.K. politics? Did it stop refugees from moving from the war zones of the Middle East to Britain? It did not.”
Source: Autocracy, Inc.