T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.”
“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.”
“To know Jesus is to experience joy.”
“To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.”
“To know joy one must go much deeper. Joy is not mere sensation. It requires extraordinary refinement of the mind, but not the refinement of the self that gathers more and more to itself. Such a self, such a man, can never understand this state of joy in which the enjoyer is not.”
Source: The Book of Life: Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti
“To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“To know life is to be restless with light.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“To know life, one must love many things.”
“To know light is to be restless, to know life is to be breathless.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“To know love is to experience infinity in a moment.”
“To know madness is to know the song of life.”
“To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.”
“To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.”
“To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?”
“To know much is often the cause of doubting more.”
“To know music is to transfer it to life.”
Source: True Education
“To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.”
“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”
Source: Tsotsi
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life.”
“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.”
“To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“To know of the existence of evil, true evil that corrupted the world, had forever altered her heart and mind. If she had chosen a different path, she wouldn't have slept another night. Her head would have been restless as she thought only of the horrors that might be creeping outside her door, waiting to rend her flesh. She would not live a life as the hunted; she would be the hunter.”
Source: Rift
“To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.”
Source: The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king
“To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.”
Source: Thrones, Dominations
“To know one's Self is to be blissful always.”
Source: Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
“To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.”
“To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.”
“To know ones' character, don't follow his act, follow his action”
“To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself”
“To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.”
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.”
“To know oneself, one must step outside oneself.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.”
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).”
“To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.”
Source: Marshmallows for breakfast
“To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.”
“To know our true essence, we need to leave all of the energy of low vibrations out of our consciousness. We must withdraw all of our life force from that realm, because it is parasitic. It has little life force of its own and cannot exist unless we give it life through our attention, imagination and emotions.”
Source: Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
“To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is ultimately ourselves that have the final say. We must decide what we value, and then live accordingly. After all, in the eyes of the world we could achieve great success, but if our actions do not coincide with what we ourselves truly deem worthy, we will find no peace.”
Source: My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
“To know ourselves is to know our direction. The same applies for children. The more we know about them, the better we can help them be the best versions of themselves.”
“to know ourselves is to stand before the border that runs through our lives and our history, and to face it, seeing it for all it's absurdity and its arbitrariness. a history of inhumanity and prejudice gave birth to the border and its wall, and we can feel the wounds it has inflicted on us ...We will endure”
Source: Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
“To know ourselves we must live our lives to the bitter end, until the moment we drop into the grave. And even then, there must be someone to gather us up, revive us, and tell of us to ourselves and to others as in a last judgment. It is this that I have done these past years; that I wish I had not done yet will continue to do. Because it is no longer a question of others’ destinies, but of my own.
Salvatore Satta
The Day of Judgment”