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 how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.”
“It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.”
“It is not how much you have, but with whom you enjoy it.”
“It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.”
Source: Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems
“It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.”
“It is not how much you make that counts, but how much money you keep.”
“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”
“It is not how old you look to others, it is how matured is your outlook about others”
“It is not, how one thinks. Indeed, it is, how one executes that.”
“It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.”
“It is not how under privilege you are that is the problem”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.”
“It is not how you dress, where you sit or how you speak that makes you professional?. It is how you say things, what you achieve, how you do things That makes you a true professional?.”
“It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.”
“It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory of women. At 30, women see their adolescence quite clearly. At 30 a woman's adolescence remains a facet fitting into her current self.... At 40, however, memories of adolescence are blurred. Women of this age look much more to their earlier childhood for memories of themselves and of their mothers. This links up to her typical parenting phase.”
“It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.”
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
Source: Selected Writings
“It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.”
Source: Suicide
“It is not human to be without shame and without desire.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.”
Source: The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language
“It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.”
Source: The Christian in society
“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”
Source: Truth
“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”
Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.”
“It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.”
“It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.”
“It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience
has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling
within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength.
We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians
can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.”
Source: George Eliot's Works
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.
“It is not ignorance that causes me to follow God, nor is it escapism through some rigorously contrived fantasy. Rather, those are the things that keep me from following the world.”
“It is not illegal to negotiate effectively.”
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!”
“It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.”
“It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.”
“It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.”
“It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small”
“It is not important to be a believer, it is not important to be religious, because there are billons around the world already! But it is important to be compassionate, it is important to be ethical, because there are only tens of thousands around the world, obviously not many!”
“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.”
“It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.”
Source: Alphonse, Or, The Adventures of Pierre-Paul-René, a Gentle Boy with a One-note Voice who was Never Surprised by Anything
“It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.”
“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”
Source: Reflections
“It is not important what happens where;
Where we fall or rise,
What we conquer or lose,
How big or small we are.”
“It is not important what is said, what is important is what is heard.”
“It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.”