I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theoretical reasoning is often irreducibly complex. A given argument has several well-matched, interacting reasons, and the removal of any one of them makes the argument break down.”
Source: Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science
“It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.”
Source: The works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is prefixed: an account of the character and writings of the author
“It is not at all polite to point out a crusty old pessimist's dark inner secret.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“It is not at all simple to understand the simple.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.”
“It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.”
“It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.”
“It is not bad to be selfish as your first responsibility is to take care of yourself. Only when you are satisfied and happy, you can make others happy and become selfless.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.”
Source: Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq
“It is not balance you need but adaptability.”
Source: Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You
“It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.
Tell me not of your starry eyes,
Your lips that seem on roses fed,
Your breasts where Cupid trembling lies,
Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed.
...Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind,
Which with temptation I could trust,
Yet never linked with error find.
One in whose gentle bosom I
Could pour my secret heart of woes.
Like the care-burdened honey-fly
That hides his murmurs in the rose.
My earthly comforter! whose love
So indefeasible might be,
That when my spirit won above
Hers could not stay for sympathy.”
Source: Selected poems of George Darley
“It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.”
Source: War and Peace
“It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
Source: The Portable William Blake
“It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers.”
Source: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
“It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.”
“It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. The natural connection is the other way. To say that one person’s desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good. Strong impulses are but another name for energy.”
Source: On Liberty
“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is not because of government that most people clean their apartments rather than try to set them on fire on a regular basis.”
Source: Libertarianism For Beginners
“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
“It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors.”
Source: A Mother's Book of Traditional Household Skills
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”
“It is not because things die,
That they are beautiful.
Things are beautiful
Because somehow,
A part of them lives on
And never dies…”
Source: Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief
“It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed.”
Source: A Far Cry from Kensington
“It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.”
Source: History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange
“It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”
Source: Credo
“It is not because you have good intentions, that you are a good person. For evil will always seek to trick and dupe well intentioned people into serving the beast unknowingly.”
“It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.”
“It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.”
“It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.”
“It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.”
“It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.”
“It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.”
Source: The Friendship of Art
“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
“It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.”
Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.”
“It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the symbolism behind "paradise lost" is the transformation from the partnership system to the dominator system.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.”
Source: Reveries on the Art of War
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
“It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.”
“It is not blasphemy to see your struggle in His! You see yourself in Him, He sees Himself in you. That is His bond with us. He is our master, we are His servants, but we are all fighting the same fight, in our own way.”
Source: Flesh and Steel
“It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will really create rich opportunities in your life, career, business – and in the world. It’s is your ability to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, add value to that of others that will.”
“It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.”
“It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.”
“It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a readiness to undervalue the world altogether. This is only possible for a Christian... All technologies and all cultures, ancient and modern, are part of our immediate expanse. There is hope in this diversity since it creates vast new possibilities of detachment and amusement at human gullibility and self-deception. There is no harm in reminding ourselves from time to time that the "Prince of this World" is a great P.R. man, a great salesman of new hardware and software, a great electric engineer, and a great master of the media. It is his master stroke to be not only environmental but invisible for the environmental is invincibly persuasive when ignored.”
Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion