T Quotes
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“They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“They who care the self-respect, their love is real and true, and they don't break the trust and certainty of their beloved. Love cannot stay where is no self-respect.”
“They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“They, who continue to stay turned to watch their past mistakes, will miss the potential successes of the future.”
“They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.”
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
“They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.”
“They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.”
“They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“They who do not face their fears are allowing fears the opportunity to kick their butts.”
Source: Sophizo
“They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.”
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in awakening, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable," and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi.”
Source: Eleonora
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“They who drink beer will think beer.”
“They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.”
“They who escape the darkness, only to cast shadows on others, live the deepest kind of enslavement.”
“They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.”
“They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”
Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives
“They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.”
“They who have gone beyond the duality of pain and pleasure have nothing to escape or chase.”
“They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.”
“They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.”
“They who have loved one another with the fieriest desire come in the end to be as two vipers biting each other's tails.”
Source: Kristin Lavransdatter
“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“They who have nothing to trouble them,
will be troubled at nothing.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
Source: Prose works
“They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.”
“They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.”
“They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.”
“They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.”
“They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.”
“They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause.”
Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
“They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.”
“They who keep my life personal, are my family.”
“They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.”
Source: Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867
“They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.”
Source: First and Fundamental Truths
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.”
“They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.”
“They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.”
Source: H.P. Lovecraft : The Complete Fiction
“They who lose today may win tomorrow.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha
“They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.”
“They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.”
“They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.”
Source: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Phillips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire
“They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.”