T Quotes
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“The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.”
“The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.”
“The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.”
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”
Source: The Book of Passion: From Passion to Peace - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
“The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding. And it has been wisely said that the man who knows only half of any question is worse off than the man who knows nothing of it. He is not only one-sided but his partisanship soon turns him into an intolerant and a fanatic. In general it is true that nothing which cannot stand up under discussion or criticism is worth defending.”
“The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.”
Source: This Business of Living
“The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.”
Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics
“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
“The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.”
“The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.”
“The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.”
“The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.”
“The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
“The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.”
“The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.”
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.”
“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.”
“The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.”
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
“The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem
“The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.”
Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
“The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.”
Source: The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company
“The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.”
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not”
“The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.”
“The man who deserts the good ship that carries him through the waves, or the girl that trusts her heart to him, ought to be chopped up into meat for wild monkeys.”
Source: Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
“The man who desires women only to deceive them, who loves them only to possess them, who takes them only to betray them, and who scorns them when they no longer please him...the man for whom nothing is sacred when it comes to seducing them, and who triumphs only in order to disgrace them—will such a man, I say, ever feel the happiness of finding a virtuous woman, someone who could repair the disorder of his desires, and replace that shameful frivolity with the sweetness of those ties that bind when woven by marriage?”
Source: La marquise de Gange
“The man who did the shooting was a civilian, Peter Kakhovsky, a gifted intellectual of extreme purity of motive in whom the conviction of the necessity of regicide burned with a gem-like flame. Determined to kill, expecting to die, this brilliant and terrible apparition, his slender form bundled up in a sheepskin coat, his delicate features surmounted by a shabby top hat, shot to kill with that indiscriminate ruthlessness which was later to characterise a whole generation of revolutionary terrorists. If he could not yet murder the Tsar, he would do the next best thing.”
“The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.”
“The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.”
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity.”
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
“The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.”
“The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.”
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.”
“The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.”
“The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.”
“The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.”
Source: The True Estimate of Life and How to Live
“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”
“The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.”
Source: The Devil's Advocate
“The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.”
“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”
Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”