I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is when you are confronted with uncertainty that you truly discover who
you are. In that space is where growth and innovation thrive and where you
learn that you are stronger and more resilient than you ever knew before.”
Source: Rest & Return: Weekly Reminders to Pause, Reflect, and Just Be
“it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“It is when you diminish personal importance that one becomes free from energy vampires. Having said no to personal importance, diminished the ego, you get true freedom of choice.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.”
“It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.”
“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.”
“It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940
“It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?”
Source: The Open Space of Democracy
“It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.”
“It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“It is while working with the Short Path that the man discovers he may apply its principles to his worldly existence, his earthly fortunes too. He learns that the ultimate source of his physical welfare is not the ego but the Overself. If he looks only to the little ego for his supply, he must accept all its narrow limitations, its dependence on personal effort alone. But if he looks farther and recognizes his true source of welfare is with the Overself, with its miracle-working Grace, he knows that all things are possible to it. Hope, optimism, and high expectation make his life richer, more abundant.”
Source: Advanced contemplation: The peace within you
“It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.”
“It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London”
“It is wholly justified to label vaccine passports as draconian, coercive, and one of the most dangerous government interventions in human history; an intervention that undermined voluntary consent to medical procedures and threatened the core principles of what it means to be an autonomous human being.”
Source: Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain
“It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his”
“It is why Good wins every story...They fight for each other. [Evil] can only fight for ourselves”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“It is why it gets so heated and blocks my ears in philosophical arguments, becomes too often the block, won't draw an argument, or quietly compute because then that argument will either be right, in which it is good, or else wrong, in which case it won't matter because I will appreciate it even more.”
“It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.”
“It is widely acknowledged by researchers that the human environmental classification is a tropical forest animal.”
“It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy”
“It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.”
“It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.”
Source: Solitude a Return to the Self
“It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature”
Source: The New Hacker's Dictionary
“It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.”
“It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.”
“It is widely recognized that the courageous spirit of a single man can inspire to victory an army of thousands. If one concerned with ordinary gain can create such an effect, how much more will be produced by one who for greater things cares!”
“It is widely said "Think globally, act locally"...... well the disaster happens when people do the opposite.”
“It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.”
Source: The Practice of Management
“It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!”
“It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!”
“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”
“It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.”
“It is wisdom to believe the heart.”
Source: The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition
“It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.”
“It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.”
“It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while”
“It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.”
“It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational.”
“It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.”
“It is wise, if not honourable and brave, not to be at home when the storm comes to visit us! As for honourable and courageous behaviour, it is to build a house that can withstand all kinds of storms and welcome the storm at home by defying it!”
“It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.”
Source: The Red Cross in peace and war
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”
“It is wise to ask questions. The only way for anyone to experience truth is to find it on their own through their own seeking, experience(s), and inner knowing. The depth of knowledge a person obtains through experiencing something firsthand, and by it resonating as truth within one’s heart, far exceeds a belief taught to them using mere words.”
Source: This Thing Called Life: Living Your Ultimate Truth
“It is wise to be lazy, intermittently.”
“It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”
“It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.”
“It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.”