T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books
“The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.”
“The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”
“The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.”
“The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'”
Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations
“The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.”
Source: The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church
“The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.”
Source: Salmonia: or, Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or, The last days of a philosopher
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
“The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.”
“The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.”
“The beginning of every New Year is always the best time to give another chance to your neglected talents!”
“The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.”
“The beginning of evil is heedlessness.”
“The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.”
“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”
“The beginning of Greater things starts as a seed. Passion, willingness to learn and tenacity is the key to rising above the average and the mediocre. Keep pushing and the refinery of life will bring out the Gold within you.”
“The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The beginning of hope. We have given each other wounds, but they are not mortal.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“The beginning of it starts at the end”
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.”
“The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.”
“The beginning of light is purpose, all else is darkness, in deceptive forms.”
“The beginning of love enters with butterflies in the stomach to pain in the heart and leave you with scars and endless questions in you!”
“The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.”
Source: Life Together
“The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.”
“The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly
themselves.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
“The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality
“The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed.”
Source: The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights
“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.”
“the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.”
Source: Wormwood: A Drama of Paris
“The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.”
“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.”
“The beginning of peace is a smile”
“The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.”
“The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.”
“The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.”
“The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.”
“The beginning of prayer is silence.”
“The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.”
“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”
“The beginning of purpose is found in creating something that only you understand.”