I Quotes
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“It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.”
“It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.”
“It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.”
“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.”
“It is the inextricable masculinity in our idea of government which so revolts at the idea of women as voters. 'To govern:' that means to boss, to control, to have authority; and that only, to most minds. They cannot bear to think of the woman as having control over even their own affairs; to control is masculine, they assume. Seeing only self-interest as a natural impulse, and the ruling powers of the state as a sort of umpire, an authority to preserve the rules of the game while men fight it out forever; they see in a democracy merely a wider range of self interest, a wider, freer field to fight in.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes
“It is the information we have that will determine who will hold a dominant position in this world”
“It is the inherent right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of language in every way they can imagine -without that adventurous spirit, nothing new can ever be born.”
Source: Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
“It is the inherent right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of the language in every way they can imagine -without that adventorous spirit, nothing new can ever be born.”
Source: Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
“It is the injured souls that are filled with poetry. It is the rebellious souls that are filled with tales of light.”
“It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.”
“It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance”
“It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world.”
“It is the insanity that superpowers have spent its resources on the unneeded wars. The powers would have invested the same resources, to rebuild their society several times, for the needy people.”
“It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.”
“It is the integrative synergy of the arts, based on cultural traditions and current trauma-informed practice, that is requisite to addressing traumatic stress with most children, adults, families, groups, and communities.”
Source: Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process
“It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.”
Source: Critical Path
“It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.”
“It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.”
Source: Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years
“It is the intention not the action that defines the result.”
“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke
“It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.”
Source: The Rest of My Life
“It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?”
“It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.”
Source: Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism
“It is the interplay between the brilliance of our joy and the abyss of our suffering that defines us. We are creatures of light born from the womb of darkness, forever navigating the dichotomy of exaltation and despair. This oscillation—this profound dance between the zeniths of happiness and the nadirs of sorrow—carves the depth of our souls, teaching us that within the crucible of our trials lies the alchemy of our greatest triumphs. Herein lies the paradox of our existence: that it is through the very act of confronting our agony, we discover the boundless realms of our bliss.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.”
“It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.”
“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.”
Source: Foundation and Empire
“It is the investment of time into perfecting a skill or skills that gives birth to celebrities, billionaires, inventors, entrepreneurs, Olympic gold medalists and so on”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the investment of time that gives birth to success”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the investment of your time that birth greatness”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the iron." Grimalkin picked his way over a puddle, then leaped atop a fallen tree, shaking out his paws."This close to the false king's realm, his influence is stronger that ever. It will be worse once you are actually within its borders."
Puck snorted."Doesn't seem like it's affecting you much, Cat."
That is because I am smarter than you and prepare for these things."
"Really? How would you prepare for me tossing you into a lake?”
Source: The Iron Queen
“It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.”
Source: Life of Pi
“It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.”
“It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'”
“It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.”
Source: PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS
“It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.”
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
“It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.”
“It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.”
“It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.”
“It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.”
“It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.”
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”