T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.”
Source: Selections from The Female Spectator
“To know pain as a feeling is like sipping a tea. To know it as a companion is like eating a full meal.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.”
“To know people really, you must catch them in their very unhappy times! If they treat you well, then you can be sure that they are good people!”
“to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.”
Source: Pilgrim's Inn
“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”
Source: Embrace the Night
“To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“To know Seattle one must know its waterfront. It is a good waterfront, not as busy as New York's, not as self-consciously colorful as San Francisco's, not as exotic as New Orleans, but a good, honest, working waterfront with big gray warehouses and trim fishing boats and docks that smell of creosote, and sea gulls and tugs and seafood restaurants and beer joints and fish stores--a waterfront where you can hear foreign languages and buy shrunken heads and genuine stuffed mermaids, where you can watch the seamen follow the streetwalkers and the shore patrol follow the sailors, where you can stand at an open-air bar and drink clam nectar, or sit on a deadhead and watch the water, or go to an aquarium and look at an octopus.”
Source: Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
“To know someone else you first have to know yourself
RjS”
“To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.”
“To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.”
“To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.”
Source: Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays
“To know ten thousand things, know one well.”
“To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.”
“To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.”
“To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.”
“To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.”
“To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.”
“To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.”
“To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.”
“To know that I continue to touch the lives of so many brides is a very special feeling.”
“To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.”
“To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.”
Source: In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer
“To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over.”
Source: All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28
“To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.”
“To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death”
“To know that one is dreaming
is to be no longer perfectly asleep.”
Source: The Four Loves
“To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.”
“To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.”
Source: Letters
“To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.”
“To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.”
“To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.”
“To know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse - hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he (Benjamin) said, the unalterable law of life”
Source: Animal Farm
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.”
“To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.”
“To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.”
Source: The Culture of Counter-culture: The Edited Transcripts
“To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.”
“To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.”
“To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.”
“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”
“To know the age of the universe, it is very important to know the age of the chemistry”
“To know the answers of one game is useless, to name somebody or something is pointless when they don't reflect when you call him or her.”
“To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.”
“To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.”
“To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“To know the depths of your own heart is the greatest love affair you will ever have”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.”
Source: Children of Dune