T Quotes
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“To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.”
Source: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons
“To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.”
Source: Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings
“To be premature is to be perfect”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
“To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.”
“To be present is to be prayerful.”
“To be present, it's not enough to know who you are and express it to others: you need to act on it. In 1992, psychologist William Kahn studied psychological presence in the workplace, identifying four critical dimensions: a person must be attentive, connected, integrated, and focused.”
Source: Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
“To be present to the magic of your body responding to life is to feel life flooding in and out of you every second of the day.”
“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.”
“To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare organizations around the world, and by signing petitions, starting your own campaigns, rescuing and fostering animals, organizing cleanups, recycling, volunteering at your local animal shelter, going to eco-tourist destinations or photo safaris. This will help get the word out to the masses, and hopefully, this will bring more awareness and more compassion to animal welfare.”
“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”
“To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded”
“To be productive, you must convert every minute of your time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its perfection. A religious must never give up prophesising Let us think about what so many great saints, monks and religious men and women have done, from St Anthony the Abbot onward. Being prophets may sometimes involve making ruido [Spanish for noise]. I do not know how to put it Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say 'a mess.' But in reality, the charism of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.”
“To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.”
Source: The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing
“To be prosperous you must discover your gifting’s, potentials and talents”
“To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.”
“To be proud is to live pretentiously around riches; to be humble is to live unpretentiously despite riches.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”
Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living: Together with Prayers Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions, and Furnished for All Necessities
“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.”
“To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.”
“To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.”
“To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.”
“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.”
Source: A Pocket Full of Pebbles
“To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.”
“To be queer and Somali and neurodivergent is concentrated alchemy, and yet we constantly raid the cupboards of our souls like we are a people of lack. When you operate from a position of lack, you don’t realise you’re robbing yourself of everything worth preserving, and forgetting to toss away all the empty pursuits that lost their synthetic spell several generations ago. And suddenly, you’re wide awake in a new country, in a new decade, and you’re startled because you can’t remember how you got here or why you’re still feeling hunted by your own reflection. You can’t remember how or when or where or why you misplaced all your breezy dynamism—all that wildness of perception you used to project with such ferocity. Where did it all go? We have conveniently forgotten that we have always been fundamentally idiosyncratic and fantastic and fucking alive. Instead we feed ourselves and our children and our children’s children prosaic fuckery for what? Respectability politics? So that if we twist and try our damnedest to conform to standards that have never been coded into our collective DNA, that we’ll what? Somehow be less strange? Less weird and wonderful? That we’ll transcend the soul-snuffing snare that is the myth of the good immigrant? That if we mute all of our magic—everything that makes us some of the most innately interesting, individualistic and fun, funny beings in this boring, beige-as-fuck world—that we’ll win over whom? Folks who don’t season their food right or whose understanding of freedom is a shitty Friday night sloshfest at a shitty pub playing shitty music, chatting nonsense that no-one with a single iota of sense gives a fuck about? Is that who you are so deeply invested in trying to impress? If so, then go for it, but don’t fool yourself for a fucking second into thinking that trying desperately to shave off your elemental peculiarities through self-diminishment is salvation, because it simply isn’t, honey, and it never will be.”
“To be queer, then, is to marginalize oneself, to rebel against the existing order, even if that order benefits the many over the few. To be queer is to revel in victimhood. It is to reject Western epistemology. It is to act on one's base instincts and desires. It is to fail, even when success is within reach, if only to prove that failure is inevitable in the current system for anyone who is not cisheteronormative and white.”
Source: Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic
“To be quietly brilliant is to give to the world.”
“To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light.”
Source: Psychological Types
“To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.”
“To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.”
“To be quite honest I would rather have the current incompetent arse clenching pan drop sucking cross dressing incumbent hemorrhoids running the country rather than the two Eds – Silliband & DoughBall & their motley squad of coconuts, kebabs, cornish pasties and Waitrose shopping pretenders.”
“To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.”
“To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a PhD dropout. No matter how many twenty-five-page papers I wrote, I never felt like I was saying much. I didn't feel like the writer of the book, whose work I was analyzing, would have been impressed. It didn't matter how much time or effort I put in.”
“To be quite honest, I'm not religious.”
“To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.”
“To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.”
“To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.”
“TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.”
“To be racked with agony yet to be in awe at what lights the sky, to groan at the briefest memories that left their footprints yet to search for the meaning of life, is an act of bravery.....”
“To be Radchaai is to be civilised.”
“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
Source: Marx: Selected Writings
“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
Source: Essays in Radical Empiricism