O Quotes
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“One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.”
“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“One can only blaspheme if one believes.”
“One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.”
Source: The Key of the Mysteries
“One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.”
Source: HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.”
“One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.”
“One can only forget about time by making use of it.”
“One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.”
“One can only hear the chirping of birds, the quacking of ducks, and the echoes of one's mind.”
“One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.”
“One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.”
“One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.”
“One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.”
Source: Throne of the Crescent Moon
“One can only learn by teaching.”
“One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking”
“One can only learn what one doesn’t know.”
“One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.”
“One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.”
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we take the blows from the English and the Americans. [Germans in the bombed cities] are gradually beginning to lose their courage. Hell like that is hard to bear for any length of time, especially since the inhabitants along the Rhine and Ruhr see no prospect of improvement.”
“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. And this comes from the realization that there are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly inane, we may actually on occasion feel insane for not believing them; and that is probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt we self-doubt, we convince ourselves into lame passivity and blind acceptance, we tell ourselves, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.”
Source: Healology
“One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.”
“One can only see until the light is gone.”
Source: Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince
“One can only see what one observes, one observes only things which are already in the mind.”
“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”
Source: Red Dragon
“One can only share so much
There are secrets we must keep”
“One can only show respect for something,
if he tries to understand it.”
“One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.”
“One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.”
“One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.”
Source: Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy
“One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable.”
“One can only worry so much, however; then one becomes philosophical. I suppose philosophy is merely sublimated worry.”
Source: The Stories of Paul Bowles
“One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.”
Source: Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama
“One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.”
“One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.”
Source: The Autobiography
“One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.”
“One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“One can point to countless Sasquatches and their morphological kin, ghosts by the bushel, and aliens by the mothership load, but Gef existed just this once.”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.”
Source: The ballad and the source
“One can presume or assume the best can form the best, but the outcome may not the best.”
“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
“One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.”
“One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.”
“One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.”
“One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.”
Source: The Cabinet of Curiosities
“One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.”
Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor