T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.”
Source: Folie Du Jour
“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
“To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.”
Source: The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year C
“To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.”
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
“To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.”
“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.”
“To see what they see, sit where they sit.”
“To see what we're seeing - this boat, I don't know what happened, but this boat just came here.”
Source: Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane
“To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.”
“To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?”
“To see with the eye of an entrepreneur is to see the usefulness in everything.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”
Source: The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931
“To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.”
“To see you is to forget my name.
To forget this tight collar
and that delayed train.
To forget the conflict with the landlady
and the worry that my students won’t like me.
These trifles lose themselves
in the valleys of your brows
and the seas of your hair.
To see you is to forget my name.
To forget if it matters what I do
and whether what I do matters.
To forget who I think I am
and who I think I ought to become.
To forget every past moment
and unremember
every moment to come.
To see you is to forget my name.
To forget myself
and forget the world.
These trivialities drown themselves
in the dark eyes that stare back at me.
Because to see you is to see
you.
Only you.”
“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
“to see you shine brighter on the tip of that hill, is a cosmic deal
to me”
Source: Licorice: a poetic experience
“To see your country being destroyed from afar - it's very hard to only watch and do nothing. My writing is the only way to address my feelings about this disaster and to at least try to find a solution as a writer. I know I have limits. But I have to do my best as a writer.”
“To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.”
“To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.”
“To see your mother as a baby, that is what it's like, and therefore heartbreaking and wretched, and therefore also cleansing in some crooked way, the self wiped clean of static, pared down to its essentials, the human core that bore you, which was borne.”
Source: The End of the Point
“To see your outer self you need eyes and a mirror but to see your inner self you need heart and your heart becomes your eyes and a mirror.”
“To see yourself objectively from the outside is a great blessing! Sometimes to visit your true-self you must leave yourself!”
“To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
“To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.”
“To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.”
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
Source: The Economy of Cities
“To seek a justification for a decision already made.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“To seek and hold political power is to seek something that distorts self-conception, enlarging the ego as it corrupts the brain.”
“To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.”
“To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.”
“To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.”
“To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 2
“To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“To seek God’s kingdom is to discover its essence and totality”
“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
Source: Killosophy
“To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.”
“To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.”
“To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.”
“To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.”
Source: Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY
“To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.”
“To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.”
“To seek out the disciplined and skilled ways of the hunter is the only true honour we may rightfully claim, and to seek the impeccability of the hunter’s spirit is the only possible justification for our existence.”
Source: Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I
“To seek out the upright. No fall but
preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness,
counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms oaring. Upright to what?
Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were
common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long
day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet
know it must.”
Source: The Road
“To seek selfhood can be a poignant yet powerful journey for it needs you to delve into your multilayered self...The journey can tear you apart yet enrich you at the same time..But there you are, pushed by a longing for love and fulfillment... How can you even deny your primal desire?... Tormented yet pulled by the search, you come to understand who you are and what you need unquestionably....for the journey makes you embrace your multilayered self...Through it comes your self-reflection, the beautiful love affair with your tender soul...The journey becomes your way to enrichment and through it evolves your own understanding of God....Someday, you learn how to overcome betrayal and loss..Through it all, you come to claim your own place in this complex world....”