T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To Aristotle, friends “are disposed toward each other as they are disposed to themselves: a friend is another self.”
… Your brain is like a clever lawyer, twisting the words in Darwin’s contract. Selfishness can actually be altruism— if I believe that you are me.”
Source: Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
“To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy.”
Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
“To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book”
“To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.”
Source: Extraordinary tales
“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
Source: Joan of Arc
“To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination.”
“To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.”
“To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon.”
“To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.”
“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.”
“To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point. The sufferings will be tremendous, but one must be strong, be born a poet: it is in no way my fault.”
Source: Illuminations
“To arrive was to die a little.”
Source: From a View to a Death
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.”
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.”
“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
“To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.”
“To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.”
Source: Maurice
“To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"”
“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.”
“To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.”
“To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.”
“To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.”
“To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.”
Source: The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books
“To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."”
Source: Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
“To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!”
Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose
“To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.”
“to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.”
“To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.”
“To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)
“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”
Source: In Time of Need
“To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "do I have the right to be thirsty?”
Source: The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them
“To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding”
Source: On difficulty, and other essays
“To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.”
“To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again.”
Source: Sketches of natural history
“To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.”
“To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“To ask pardon of the authorities is to recognise their right.”
Source: Le Roi s'amuse
“To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked all the time, you would miss everything. With the exception of portraits, it is generally bad news if people are looking at the camera.”
“To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.”
“To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.”
“To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.”
Source: Flight of the Eagle
“To ask the hard question is simple.”
“To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.”
“To ask the proper question is half of knowing.”
“To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.”