T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.”
“To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.”
Source: Damage: a novel
“To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.”
“To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.”
“To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.”
“To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert of the conventions of correct arrangements in order to misplace them. In other words, misplacing things with the understanding, or even the mastery, of normalcy is actually quite poetic. These are rule-based operations.”
“To apply quantum theory to the entire universe... is tricky... particles of matter fired at a screen with two slits in it... exhibit interference patterns just as water waves do.
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
Source: The Grand Design
“To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.”
Source: Art For Dummies
“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.”
“To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.”
“To appreciate beauty is to experience humility—to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment. And humility, it turns out, is key to recognizing that in order to survive, you must adapt yourself to the environment, that it won't adapt to your needs.”
Source: The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
“To appreciate heaven well it is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”
“To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”
“To appreciate how income taxation reduces prosperity form what it could be, imagine a 100 percent tax on incomes. We wouldn't expect much prosperity in such a society. People would have no incentive to earn money. They would devote resources to hiding the little they did earn. No investments would be made. No savings would exist to increase living standards. People's activities would be grossly influenced by the tax.
If we lower the rate from 100 percent, the principle does not change. . . If you want less of something, tax it.”
Source: Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
“To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.”
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace
“To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.”
“To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.”
“To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.”
Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
“To appreciate the best opportunity for attack and defence, you must fully understand the rhythm of movement.
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Source: Principles and Practice of Aikido
“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”
“To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.”
“To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.”
“To apprehend sin in oneself is a spiritual act, impossible without grace, without the drawing near to us of Divine Light. The initial effect of the approach of this mysterious Light is that we see where we stand ‘spiritually’ at the particular moment. The first manifestations of this Uncreated Light do not allow us to experience it as light. It shines in a secret way, illuminating the black darkness of our inner world to disclose a spectacle that is far from joyous for us in our normal state of fallen being. We feel a burning sensation. This is the beginning of real contemplation — which has nothing in common with intellectual or philosophical contemplation. We become accurately conscious of sin as a sundering from the ontological source of our being. Our spirit is eternal but now we see ourselves as prisoners of death. With death waiting at the end, another thousand years of life would seem but a deceptive flash.
Sin is not the infringement of the ethical standards of human society or of any legal injunction. Sin cuts us off from the God of Love made manifest to us as Light in Whom there is no darkness at all (cf. 1 John 1.5). To behold one’s pitiful reality is a heavenly gift, one of the greatest. It means that we have already to a certain extent penetrated into the divine sphere, and have begun to contemplate — existentially, not philosophically — man as he is in God’s idea of him before the creation of the world.”
Source: His Life Is Mine
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.”
“To approach another thoughtfully...to respect opinion despite the differences...to be willing to know about another's dreams and despairs...and to remain unabsorbed in your own world so as not to fail to remember the other..is to recognize and acknowledge that their existence matters....that shapes the health of your relationship...so in togetherness, you both can build respect and awareness of one another consciously...thus it becomes the purposeful building of a relationship.....”
“To approach another thoughtfully...to respect the opinion despite the differences...to be willing to know about another's dreams and despairs...and to remain unabsorbed in your own world so as not to forget the other..is to recognize and acknowledge that their existence matters....that shapes the health of your relationship...so in togetherness, you both can build respect and awareness of one another consciously...thus it becomes the purposeful building of a relationship.....”
“To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.”
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced.”
Source: Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
“To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.”
“To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.”
“To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.”
“To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death.”
“To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.”
Source: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
“To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.”
“To argue against an ideology, you have to acknowledge and articulate it. In the process, you might inadvertently ventriloquize your opposition. This is a problem that kneecaps me constantly, a problem that might define journalism in the Trump era: when you write against something, you lend it strength and space and time.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.”
“To argue for inerrancy is arguing for a different kind of library of books, a library we don't have”
Source: What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
“To argue in the face of our fear brings on the _magical “yes,”_ the simple affirmation of our being _Argument_ springs out of our authority. It escapes from us as our thought and feeling, as our sounds, our music, our rhythms. When we give ourselves _permission_, the argument bursts from our lungs, out of our throats, out of words formed and caressed by our lips, out of words born of our hearts. When we give ourselves _permission_, we rediscover our will to win—may I say it?—we become born-again gladiators.”
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day
“To argue:..."only causes us to fall into the pit of Because, and there to perish with the dogs of Reason.”
Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga
“To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.”
“To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.”
“To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.”
“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.”
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
“To argue with reality is to argue with God”
“To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.”