I Quotes
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“It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.”
Source: Points of View
“It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.”
“It is not the only battle in the world, I think to myself. Everyone of us has our own. the only defeat is not to fight.”
Source: Listen to the Silence
“It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.”
Source: Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
“It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.”
“It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.”
“It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!”
“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.”
“It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel
“It is not the parents who should be blamed for their children's bad behaviour, but the government and the environment that continue to betray its citizens and produce poverty in the country.”
“It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity.”
“It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.”
“It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.”
“It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.”
“It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“It is not the past that shapes lived emotional experience, but rather the act of remembering in the present. To remember a particular emotion from the past implies that in the instant of remembering in the present emotions are created.”
“It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action.”
“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”
“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“It is not the person who is being taken out of a trouble that gains experience on how to deliver people from troubles. It’s the person who does the deliverance that gains more experience. Leadership is service!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“It is not the physical distance that matters that much, it is the lack of Einheit.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“It is not the physicist but the Self-realized [spiritual] master who comprehends the true nature of matter.”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda illustrated edition
“It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.”
Source: Theater of the Oppressed
“It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.”
“It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.”
Source: Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.”
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.”
“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.”
“It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“It is not the position, but the disposition.”
“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”
Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics
“It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.”
Source: Politics
“It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.”
“It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.”
“It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the fear. That is what bothers me.”
“It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.”
Source: Children of Dune
“It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.”
“It is not the prisoners that need reformation. It is the prisons.”
“It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.”
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
“It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.”
Source: Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
“It is not the psychologists but the literary writers who are ahead of their time.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.”
“It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.”
“It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.”
Source: The Works of Herman Melville
“It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.”
“It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”
Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community
“It is not the quantity of publications, but their quality and the effects they have on the real world outside of academia’s ivory tower is what determines whether we shall live way after we exit this world, or perish while still at 30!”
“It is not the quantity of reading but the quality of engagement that defines literary worth.”