I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is a common misconception that if you diversify, you don’t need to learn anything. Just buy a bunch of stocks, and you will be good. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
“It is a common misconception that the opposite of connected is lonely. You can be alone without feeling loneliness. The converse is also true: you can be surrounded by people and yet feel all alone.”
Source: The Happiness Reset - What To Do When Nothing Makes You Happy
“It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
“It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.”
“It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.”
“It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.”
Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)
“It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.”
Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.”
Source: Travels in England in 1782
“It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.”
“It is a common practice of life to focus on the world immediately before us, the one we see and smell and touch every day. It grounds us where we are, with our communities and our known corners and concerns. But to see the full supply chains of Al requires looking for patterns in a global sweep, a sensitivity to the ways in which the histories and specific harms are different from place to place and yet are deeply interconnected by the multiple forces of extraction.”
Source: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
“It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.”
“It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.”
“It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.”
“It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.”
“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.”
“It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were of no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer...”
“It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.”
Source: Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel
“It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being.”
“It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.”
“It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.”
Source: Shadow of the Hegemon
“It is a common trick of Nature – and a profoundly
significant one – that, just when despair is deepest,
she waves a wand before the weary eyes and does
her best to waken an impossible hope.”
Source: The Listener and Other Stories
“It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.”
Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed
“It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'”
“It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.”
“It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business”
“It is a commonplace fact that there is no one so low in the world that he cannot find some one viler than himself, and consequently puff with pride and self-contentment.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
“It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that would suggest that conservatives take a more understanding and indulgent view of individual lapses, while liberals take a more harshly judgmental one. In fact, we know, quite the opposite is the case.”
Source: In Defense of Elitism
“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”
“It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration.”
“It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.”
Source: The Essential Galbraith
“It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.”
Source: More Classics Revisited
“It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be”
“It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.”
Source: Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article
“It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the world, and second of all did all the science originally around climate and global warming and presented that to the world, has been the country that has refused to participate in a constructive way to the solution.”
“It is a completely meaningless discussion, the kind you only have with someone you don't really know because you have no idea what else to talk about, you just know you want to talk to them... it's like love at first sight, the kind of discussion that only feels meaningful if the person you are talking to means something to you.”
Source: The Other Woman
“It is a conceit of psychologists that, with our assessment tools and our psychometric tests, we are uniquely enabled to predict with confidence the feelings, thoughts, and behaviour of an individual person in a given situation. Most of the time, we can’t.
Some Thoughts on Providing Psychological Reports for the
Courts and other Agencies”
“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
“It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.”
Source: State of the Union Addresses
“It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.”
“It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.”
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.”
Source: A New England girlhood
“It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.”
“It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.”
Source: Reviews
“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
“It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.”
“It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.”
Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream