T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
“To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.”
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
“To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.”
“To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...”
“To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.”
“To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.”
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
“To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.”
Source: The Flame Alphabet
“To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.”
Source: The Pope and the People: Select Letters and Addresses on Social Questions
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”
“To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.”
“To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”
Source: Sharp Objects: A Novel
“To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.”
“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully appreciated when we see the whole of it rather than spending the entirety of our lives simply walking a part of it.”
“To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.”
Source: Discover Your Destiny with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“To refuse to claim your privacy is actually to cede it, either to state trespassing its constitutional restraints or to a "private" business.”
Source: Permanent Record
“To refuse to dream is to scorn the very breath of the soul.”
“To refuse to fight for love that is both free and responsible is in a sense to reject the possibility of love itself.”
“To refuse to respond is in itself a response.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“To refuse to right a wrong is to make it yours.”
“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me.”
“To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life
“To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.”
“To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus”
“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”
Source: The Renaissance
“To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.”
“To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.”
Source: Manhood of humanity
“To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.”
“To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.”
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
“To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.”
“To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.”
“To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.”
“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”
“To regard Zen as a form of asceticism and nothing more will be a grievous mistake. What Zen aims at is to reduce the claims of the body to a minimum in order to divert their course to a higher realm of activities. To torture the body is not its object, nor is it its object to gain merit and thereby to lay one's fortune in heaven.”
Source: The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.”
“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.”
“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
“To regret what your life has been is the true folly, I told myself, because the person doing the regretting has been shaped by the life he subsequently regrets.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“To regret your soul is to regret your past.”
Source: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.”
“To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.”
Source: The Valley of Unknowing
“To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.”
“To reign over People is nothing special, for doing so, you only have to intimidate them. The real Art consists in freeing People who are being dominated.”
“To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.”