T Quotes
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“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”
Source: Politics
“The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.”
Source: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
“The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.”
“The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective.”
“The beginning of something new can feel fresh and amazing,
Sometimes the weight of its importance pressing down upon us.
Yet, in the grander scheme of unselfish, requited love,
The heart bears it all, knowingly and willingly,
Outshining the most glorious of sunrises.”
“The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.”
“The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.”
“The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.”
“The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.”
“The beginning of the spiritual journey is what I call "life after awakening.”
Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“The beginning of the universe is actually the end of our universe.”
“The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“The beginning of this year has alerted me to a brand new phenomenon. That the definition/the image, of fear, has changed! It used to be that when one stood up to face the demon and look it in the eye for what it is-- this was once upon a time called courage. To stand in darkness and look at it, this was called courage. But in recent times, evidently this has changed. Today, when we stand and look at a demon in its face, and fight it, we are the fearful ones. We fight because we are fearful. Only the courageous can ignore. Why have the acts of indifference, omition and evasion, now become the new definition of courage? There is no bravery in the act of looking the other way, to cover one's eyes in order not to see what is. There is bravery in the act of uncovering one's eyes, looking at what is, gazing into the eyes of demons. Look and see, what has become of our world, what has become of us. Do not be afraid to rise, to conquer.”
“The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. Ludwig Wittgenstein had the idea that philosophy should be what he called "true enough." I think that's a great idea. True enough is as true as can be gotten. The imagination is chaos. New forms are fetched out of it. The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas.”
“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.”
“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”
“The beginning of wisdom is the admission of one’s own lack of knowledge. As long as we think we know, when in fact we do not, we shall continue to go to the poor and demonstrate to them all the marvellous things they could do if they were already rich. This has been the main failure of aid to date.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.”
Source: The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal
“The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.”
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
“The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.”
“The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”
“The beginning of your dreams may seem messy, but if you keep taking the right action, the end will be amazing.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.”
“The beginning seems bitter to you, but the end is sweeter for you. However, you can’t get through to the end without having a beginning. You must begin by all means.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“The beginning sets the rules.”
“The Beginning was always with her, no matter how alone she felt.”
Source: Crown
“The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.”
“The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.”
“The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.”
Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.”
Source: The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.”
“The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.”
“The beginnings of all things are small.”
Source: The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
“The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.”
Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio
“The beginnings of marriage can be a tough phase because it's the time when two individuals are learning to synchronize their hearts, minds, and lives into a harmonious melody of love, and every beautiful symphony requires practice and patience.”
“The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.”
“The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.”
Source: A Reliable Wife
“The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The behavior gap is why the average investor meaningfully underperforms the average returns for asset classes over time. Yet, many can’t resist the temptation of irrational behavior during nerve-racking volatility and irrational exuberance.”
Source: Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management
“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”
Source: Collected papers ...