I Quotes
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“It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.”
“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.”
Source: Einstein Intersection
“It is not that Mars doesn’t feel afraid, it is that he doesn’t let his fear stop him from doing what he wants to do, and what he needs to do.”
Source: The Little Light
“It is not that my eyes do not reach as far as theirs but it is where my eyes reach that theirs do not, in the unseen beyond the seen......”
“It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.”
“It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.”
“It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.”
Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum
“It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.”
“It is not that species become extinct – all species will eventually become extinct. It is that we hasten extinction for so many species before we even know them or understand them, before we have grasped the way of the world and our place in it – when so much suffering could be avoided, with just a little pause and meditation on this journey of life.
We are not wiser than the animals we kill and the species we are driving to extinction. We are like rampaging bulls, goaded into action by forces we do not understand, trampling through fields full of priceless treasures. We are able to deviate from this thoughtless, violent mediocrity. We must if we are to survive.”
Source: Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity
“It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.”
“It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?”
“It is not that the dumb cannot be taught, It is that the teachers failed to teach”
“It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.”
“It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.”
Source: Opinions of Oliver Allston
“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”
“It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.”
“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with it, and receive a high pleasure in the endurance or patience, a pleasure necessary to the well-being of this world; while those who will not submit to the temporary sameness, but rush from one change to another, gradually dull the edge of change itself, and bring a shadow and weariness over the whole world from which there is no more escape.”
Source: On Art and Life
“It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.”
“It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.”
“It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.”
Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963
“It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .”
Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
“It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!”
“It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.”
“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”
“It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.”
“It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.”
“It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.”
“It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.”
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
“It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”
“It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.”
“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”
“It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.”
Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers
“It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.”
“It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.”
Source: The Home
“It is not that you are capable of allowing them to do it to you but that you are incapable of preventing them. What use is it to you to have this effect on people, which is so incompatible with your own peace? If you insist of having an effect, it will unbalance your true nature and to no purpose.”
Source: Tales from the Tao: The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters
“It is not that you cannot become successful in life; it is just that your time to succeed has not yet come. When you do what is right at the right time, success will come.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.”
“It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.”
“It is not the absence of melancholy
Though the overcoming process during its complete presence
That allows me to fulfil my heart with greater happiness.”
Source: The Art of Wisdom: Poems for Soul Growth
“It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.”
Source: Practical Christianity
“It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.”
“It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.”
“It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.”
“It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.”
Source: This Business of Living
“It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.”
Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)
“It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.”