O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
“One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“One cannot become a practitioner of Zen just by imitating the way of eating, sitting, or dressing of Chinese or Japanese practitioners. Zen is life, Zen does not imitate. If Zen is to fully take root in the West, it must acquire a Western form, different from Oriental Zen.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“One cannot become a pundit by proxy.”
Source: The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses
“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
“One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].”
“One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.”
Source: Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack
“One cannot break the illusion of the state of doership by himself. Only the Gnani Purush (One who has realized the Self and is able to do the same for others) can break it.”
Source: Aptavani 6
“One cannot breathe, without distinctions. One may deny that; however, it would be the escape, not the truth.”
“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.”
“One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.”
“One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.”
“One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.”
“One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.”
“One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.”
Source: Table-talk
“One cannot change his current life span but one can change his next life form. The ticket can be changed but death cannot be changed. At the time of death, whatever one is latched on to, that will be his condition in the next life – ya mati, sa gati (His next life will be decided by his state of opinion and intellect at the time of his death).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“One cannot change one's way of thinking as easily as one might, say, turn into a snow leopard.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“One cannot change the type of friend one has been in the past – only in the present and the future.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage”
“One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.”
“One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.”
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.”
“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”
Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA
“One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.”
Source: Writings, 1932-1946
“One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.”
“One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.”
“One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.”
“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.”
“One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“One cannot conquer the evil in himself by resisting it ... but by transmuting its energies into other forms. The energy that expresses itself in the form of evil is the same energy which expresses itself in the form of good; and thus the one may be transmuted into the other.”
“One cannot control the actions of others, but we are responsible for what we do. People say things such as, "I can't do this," "it is not really me," "this makes me uncomfortable," etc. People, simply put, opt out of playing the game or doing so in a way that will make them successful. So get over yourself, and do what you need to do - and what, by the way, others around you are doing, to become more powerful.”
“One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.”
“One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones”
“One cannot create paradise without maintaining hell.”
Source: We That Are Young
“One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.”
“One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.”
“One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions.”
“One cannot defeat the evil power with the dialogues or weapons. Indeed, one can only defeat that with the power of love and purity of its prayers that actually, we have forgotten in our material life.”
“One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.”
“One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.”
“One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.”
“One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.”
“One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.”
“One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.”
“One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.”
“One cannot despise a thing without acknowledging its importance.”
Source: The Trouble with Peace
“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”
“One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms