T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.”
“To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.”
“To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and do, who puts up the money and backs Fascism in every country, and who owns the nations under such regimes, and why the natives of all Fascist countries must be driven into harder work, less money, reduced standards of living, poverty and desperation so that the men and corporations who found, subsidize and own Fascism can grow unbelievably rich.”
“To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
“To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.”
Source: Naruto: Chapter Book
“To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.”
“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
Source: No exit, and three other plays
“To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.”
Source: Gertrude Stein: Selections
“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”
“To know what's in my food means to prepare a gun, to know what I drink means to go and put ammo in the gun after cleaning it and finding it and to as last just to push the trigger and look... I'm dead. I'm now just watching my body!”
“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”
“To know what to do with time is to convert a day”
“To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.”
Source: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
“To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.”
“To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that.”
Source: Prince Caspian
“To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.”
Source: Across the Plains
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
“To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.”
“To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.”
“To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“To know what Zen is, and especially what it is not, there is no alternative but to practice it, to experiment with it in the concrete so as to discover the meaning which underlies the words.”
“To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.”
Source: Marius the Epicurean
“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”
“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
“To know when to stop
To know when you can get no further
By your own action,
This is the right beginning!”
Source: The Way of Chuang Tzu
“To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception”
“To know where a thing is we must have found it.”
Source: Goethe's poems and aphorisms
“To know where you are today; you have to see where you were yesterday.”
Source: Slate
“To know whether one is civilized, one must ask three questions. Is one accountable? Is one reasonable? Is one indivisible?”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”
Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
“To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.”
“To know who a person really is, I believe you have to know first who they were.”
“To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Absolute knowledge (Gnan).”
“To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Gnan (Absolute knowledge).”
Source: Who am I?
“To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.”
Source: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
“To know who I am
is to know who you are.”
Source: Dragon Astro Yoga: Synastry Expert Rebirth Almanac
“To know who we are, we must first know we are LOVE.”
“To know who you are is the best discovery you can make about yourself".”
“To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.”
“To know who you really are is the fundamental duty. Everything else is supportive.”
“To know who you truly are in a crowd gives you control over your destiny.”
Source: The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
“To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.”
“To know whom to write for is to know how to write.”
Source: The Common Reader
“To know why you fell in love
will never bring you back up.”
“To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.”