T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To read,
To write,
To travel;
That is all there is?”
“To read too many books is harmful.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71
“To read, truly read, a text, is not a cozy fireside chat between well-brought up people, in which one shares information, recalls memories, has a good time. Reading a text is a confrontation, a row, hand-to-hand fighting, which one can only leave marked and changed. It is Jacob wrestling with the angel (Gen 32:23-33), a bloody fight, which went through the night «until daybreak»; an obstinate battle which refused to give up until it had obtained what it wanted: «I will not let you go until you bless me»; a fight which left its mark, as it did on the patriarch’s hip; a fight, at the end of which, while the reader is not allowed to know the angel’s name, Jacob still receives an unexpected revelation, in addition to the blessing, a new name which marks a change of identity:”
Source: A New Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels
“To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.”
“To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.”
“To read without joy is stupid.”
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
“To read without writing is to sleep.”
“To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on”
“To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.”
“To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.”
“To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings”
“To real rich people, money is a ‘method’ and a ‘tool’ so they can enjoy today to their hearts’ content. But to fake rich people, money is a ‘goal’ or an ‘owner'.”
Source: The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich
“To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.”
“To realise the soothing power of simple life is to find the secret of happiness!”
“To realise the universal,
remove all identification with the individual.”
“To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize.”
“To realize a plan in life, one must be ready to be mobile at any hour.”
Source: The Divine Government: Guidance for the Leader
“To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.”
“To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.”
Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.”
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Source: The Alchemist
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.”
“To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.”
“To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.”
“To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.”
“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has to launch alone. You cannot impose the inquiry of truth in the heart of your partner. You cannot compel your partner to have the same intensity or the same depth of inquiry. So irrespective of where you are, the voyage has to be launched upon alone. Taking the inward journey and arriving at silence, is a voyage in solitude.”
“To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.”
Source: Dao teh jing
“To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.”
Source: Sovereignty of God
“To realize that there is no enlightenment at all is enlightenment.”
“To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.”
“To realize that you have made mistakes and hope to correct them is all anyone can hope to do.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.”
“To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.”
“To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001
“To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.”
“To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.”
“To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.”
“To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.”
Source: Complete Works
“To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.”
Source: Complete Works
“To realize the Supreme Power, either analyze your mind and keep negating all your beliefs until “nothing” remains. Or love the outside world and keep accepting everything and everyone as His reflection. Either reach nothingness or reach everythingness; both are same.”
“To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays
“To realize the value of one day, ask a daily wage laborer who has a large family to feed”
Source: No One Is Better Than You