O Quotes
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“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.”
Source: Sextet: Six essays
“One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.”
“One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.”
“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry.”
Source: Heart of a Dog
“One can find traces of every life in each life.”
Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
“One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received.”
Source: Along the Infinite Sea
“One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.”
“One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.”
“One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.”
“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
Source: Il velo di Maia. Marjane Satrapi o dell'ironia dell'Iran
“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
“One can forgive the past offences of cons, cowards, swindlers, scammers, pathological liars, financial, political parasites, mob lynchers, compulsive liars, digital aggressors, group political narcissists, bullies, vile, vicious slanderers, and vindictive deceivers. Still, it is wiser to NEVER EXTEND TRUST AGAIN nor give a second or third chance to repetitive, abusive opportunistic users, habitual offenders, and toxic bullies who happen to be Machiavellian manipulators.
~ Angelica Hopes, Sfidatopia
Book 2, Stronzata Trilogy”
“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.”
“One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule”
Source: Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
“One can gain the lofty rank of Imam Abu Ḥanīfa has in hadith by his elevated chain. He narrates many hadith with chains that are termed Thunaiyāt (Two-narrator narrations) and Thulathiyāt (Three-narrator narrations). This means that between the Imam and the Messenger of Allah a there only exists three narrators and often only two. In a recent study published under the title: Al- Imam al-A‘azam Abu Ḥanīfa Wa al-Thunaiyāt Fi Masānidihi, by Shaikh Abd al-Aziz al-Sa‘di, it is stated just the two-narrator narrations (Thunaiyāt) of the Imam are approximately 219 narrations. This makes his narrations, according to the standards of the classical hadith specialists (Muhadithin), stronger and more esteemed and valuable4 than the narrations found in the Sahihs of Al-Bukhari and Muslim, as there, one will nd, that the number of narrators between the muhaddith and the Messenger a are in most cases not less than four (in fact, the thulathiyāt of Imam Bukhari only number 21 narrations). This proves beyond doubt that Imam Abu Ḥanīfa was not only a reputable Muhaddith, moreover he was from the major authorities and Huffaz of Hadith.”
Source: Understanding Taqlid: Following One of the Four Great Imams
“One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.”
“One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.”
Source: BRING ME A UNICORN
“One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.”
“One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.”
Source: Home Life Three
“One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.”
“One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.”
“One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.”
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.”
“One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?”
Source: The ides of March
“One can go scarcely a mile in the mountains without finding one of the scenes of Ossian, one of the caves of Fingal, the traces of their passing, or the site of their tombs.”
Source: Promenade from Dieppe to the Mountains of Scotland
“One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.”
“One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”
“One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.”
“One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.”
“One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.”
“One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.”
Source: Simone De Beauvoir Today
“One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.”
“One can have a Degree and still be an idiot.
Schooling is not Education!”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“One can have a wit, but not a witless”
Source: Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)
“One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.”
“One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.”
“One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.”
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.”
Source: The Balcony
“One can imagine a high-definition democracy, in which they would show the human rights chart every day, in real time on the screens, in the way they do now for the weather. They would show the observance and violation of those rights over the whole planet, possibly with immediate penalties (which would obviously produce a constant worsening of the situation).”
Source: Fragments
“One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.”
“One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.”
Source: Profiles Of The Future
“One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.”
Source: Old School
“One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."”
Source: Collected Columns