I Quotes
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“It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.”
“It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.”
“It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.”
Source: Essays
“It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.”
“It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it - and especially as we speak of it - that we can avoid the pride of that victory, which can be worse than the sin over which we claim to have had the victory.”
Source: The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent
“It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.”
Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
“It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.”
“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory”
Source: Cosette
“It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.”
“It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.”
“It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.”
“It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.”
“It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside of us that we miss it, again and again.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.”
“It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.”
“It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.”
“It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.”
Source: The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion
“It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.”
Source: The Success Principles(TM)
“It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.”
“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.”
Source: Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South
“It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.”
“It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good”
Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
“It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.”
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”
Source: Camille Pissarro
“It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart”
Source: The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love
“It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns”
“It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“It is only by examining a book that we can ascertain what words it contains.”
Source: The Provincial Letters
“It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.”
Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
“it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.”
“It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?”
“It is only by finding and healing these old, original traumas that the narcissist has been using against you that you can break out of the insane emotional prison he or she has trapped you in. The irony is, this necessity brings with it an incredible opportunity: it can enable your evolution into the version of yourself that you have always wanted to be. It can allow you to free yourself at last from those wounded parts of your inner being that have prevented you from becoming your highest and best self.”
Source: You Can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse
“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
Source: The Little Locksmith: A Memoir
“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.”
“It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.”
“It is only by giving our very best to the present; we will uphold the timeless future.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”
“It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.”
“It is only by grace, the divine-self manifest.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.”
“It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.”
Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses
“It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.”
“It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.”
Source: The Theology of an Evolutionist
“It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.”
Source: Phalluses of Logic: How to Know When Republicans Lie
“It is only by imposing a naïve and unexamined aesthetic of their own, [Tzvetan] Todorov proposes, that modern scholars are able to declare so confidently that certain parts of the ancient text could not belong with others: the supposedly primitive narrative is subjected by scholars to tacit laws like the law of stylistic unity, of noncontradiction, of nondigression, of nonrepetition, and by these dim but purportedly universal lights is found to be composite, deficient, or incoherent. If just these four laws were applied respectively to Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, Tristram Shandy, and Jealousy, each of these novels would have to be relegated to the dustbin of shoddily “redacted” literary scraps.”
Source: The Art of Biblical Narrative