I Quotes
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“It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.”
Source: A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search For A Joyful Theology
“It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others. It is not only the most determined who drive change; it is those who most fully engage with like-minded people. And it is not wealth or prestige that best motivates people; it is respect and help from peers.”
Source: Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
“It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms to dissent and criticize those in power help keep abuses of power in check. They combat tendencies of elites to become isolated from and ignorant of the people they deeply affect through their decisions.”
“It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies.
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.”
Source: Life Together
“It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.”
Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“It is not sin as we see it that was laid on Christ but sin as God sees it, not sin as our conscience feebly reveals it to us but sin as God beholds it in all its unmitigated malignity and unconcealed loathsomeness. Sin, in its exceeding sinfulness, Jesus has put away. But when we perceive sin, then we are to trust the blood.”
“It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.”
“It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.”
Source: The Great Comic Book Heroes
“It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.”
“It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!”
“It is not so easy as running and not running.”
Source: Deerskin
“It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.”
Source: Works
“It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.”
“It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.”
“It is not so essential to think much as to love much.”
Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)
“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.”
“It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.”
“It is not so hard to believe, even during the worst of things, that courage is the more potent contagion. That there are more invested in solidarity than annihilation. That just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.”
“It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.”
“It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.”
Source: Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition
“It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.”
“It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.”
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”
Source: Awakening in the 21st Century
“It is not so much about horniness, it is about awareness of my well-being.”
Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.”
Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.”
“It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.”
Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.
“It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.”
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“It is not so much that he is economical with the truth as that he lacks the normal understanding of it. For him truth is whatever serves the cause, and when he engages in what is commonly judged to be deception he is only anticipating the new world that he is helping to bring about .”
“It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.”
“It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.”
“It is not so much that love is blind, but rather it cannot be fooled by ugliness.”
“It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.”
“It is not so much that we fall in love with someone, but in our conception of them.”
“It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.”
Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.”
“It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.”
Source: Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published
“It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God’s mission.”
Source: The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative
“It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?”
Source: Teacher