O Quotes
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“One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.”
“One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.”
“One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.”
“One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.”
“One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.”
Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.”
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.”
“One should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.”
“One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.”
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms
“One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.”
“One should every day think over and make an effort to implant in his mind the saying, "At that time is right now." It is said that it is strange indeed that anyone is able to pass through life by one means or another in negligence.”
“One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.”
“One should explore the cosmic consciousness, and the only reason we are active today is to get united with the Supreme Power.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.”
“One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“One should feel that one's friends, the people who meditate around you, who seek, are likewise pligrims on a journey. They're traveling to eternity also. You should love them. Whenever you see a good quality in them, you should repect them.”
“One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.”
“One should get as much pleasure from spending money as one gets from earning it. But at that time, one says, ‘I spent too much money!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“One should go away long enough to know the cotton-soft contentment of coming home.”
Source: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
“One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.”
Source: Henry and Cato
“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.”
Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
“One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.”
“One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.”
“One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.”
“One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.”
“One should have the courage of one's loneliness.”
Source: Singing in the Shrouds: Roderick Alleyn #20
“One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.”
“One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.”
Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
“One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.”
“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.”
“One should Judge, with the vision, not the emotions; conversely, one should love, with the sincerity, not vision since that may cause failure.”
“One should just be able to play a perfect game.”
“one should know what one's role is.”
Source: Alchemist of the East
“One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.”
“One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.”
“One should learn that how to love and respect its life; just pray to God and follow the teaching of messengers and the holy books since that show the right way to be a graceful human for the entire humanity”
“One should learn to be happy and content by himself, for everything else life is there to give a perfect lesson.”
“One should learn to know one’s own Self. And if one does not know that, then he should know dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others). If one does not know dharmadhyan, then he lost his human birth again. And one will not attain Moksha (liberation) if one does not know ‘that’ (i.e. to know one’s Self).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“One should learn to sail not to conquer the ocean”
“One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.”
“One should lift up
the self through the self,
and one should not
make the self sink;
only the self
is friend to the self,
and only the self
is enemy to the self.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“One should live one’s life in a way that the passage of time can’t be felt at all. The key is to keep yourself busy with unimportant things, and one day you’ll be no more. A mature man knows this fact very well and therefore keeps himself busy with things that shouldn’t, after all, matter to him.”
Source: That Thing About You
“One should look forward rather than backwards.”
“One should love animals. They are so tasty.”