T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To tvoj duh u pohodu, u bezdanom mraku osvetljava put.”
Source: Krugovanje
“To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country”
Source: The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel
“To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans”
Source: The Swan Kingdom
“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”
“To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.”
Source: Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin
“To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.”
“To underestimate the power of your influence is to rob others of the change that could have been theirs because of the power that you refused to believe in.”
“To underestimate what you can do is to overestimate what you can’t.”
“To underestimate your God-given greatness is not humility; it's small faith”
“To understand
The signs that stars compose, we need depend
Only on stars that are entirely there
And the apparent space between them. There
Never need be lines between them, puzzling
Our sense of what is what.”
Source: Selected poems
“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”
“To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality”
Source: Two Cats, Three Tales
“To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.”
“To understand a language is to understand thoughts.”
“To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.”
“To understand a man is really to be that man.”
Source: Sex & Character
“To understand a metaphor is to recognize that if one context or conceptual constellation is laid over another, just so, aspects or outlines will spring into focus, a common pattern will be discernible — one that makes a difference to our grasp of the individual constellations or contexts separately.”
Source: Wisdom & Metaphor
“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.”
Source: Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950
“To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.”
“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.”
“To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”
“To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.”
“To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.”
“To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.”
“To understand Africa you must understand a basic impulsive savagery that is greater than anything we civilised people have encountered in two centuries”
Source: Something of Value
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“To understand an artist is to be a genius.”
“To understand an issue or someone’s argument about anything,
one needs to understand the very nature of the issue, which is the
foundational question concerning anything.”
Source: Made in the Image of God: Understanding the Nature of God and Mankind in a Changing World
“To understand and be understood is to be at peace”
“To understand and be understood is to be free.”
“To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them”
“To understand and do all, or most, of your responsibilities, is an act that requires a strong will, an understanding heart, a giving soul, and a responsible mind. Those who feel the responsibility towards their families, education, work environment, other people, and earth, are the ones who help this world to stand on its feet and reach better future by God's will.
It is a skill that requires both true will and balance in life, and it is a necessary skill that should be taught to children and teens gradually as they are the ones who are going to take care of this world in the future.”
“To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.”
“To understand another, delve into the unspoken realms, for there, in the silence, you’ll find the authentic tapestry of their existence.”
Source: Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I
“To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“To understand another person's thoughts and feelings thoroughly, with the meanings they have for him, and to be thoroughly understood by this other person in return -- this is one of the most rewarding of human experiences, and all too rare.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“To understand antiquity’s idea of man, we must examine its gods and heroes, myths and legends. In these we find the classical prototype of genuine man. ... the will to greatness, wealth, power and fame. Anything opposed to it falls short of the authentically human. ...
What a world of difference between this conception and that to which Christ has led us! ...
Jesus’ friends are in no way remarkable for their talent or character. He who considers the apostles or disciples great from a human or religious point of view raises the suspicion that he is unacquainted with true greatness. Moreover, he is confusing standards, for the apostle and disciple have nothing to do with such greatness. Their uniqueness consists of their being sent, of their God-given role of pillars for the coming salvation.”
Source: The Lord
“To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.”
Source: The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937
“To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don't know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.”
“To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad. This relation of understanding is partial, but the relation of love is complete. In love the sense of difference is obliterated and the human soul fulfils its purpose in perfection, transcending the limits of itself and reaching across the threshold of the infinite. Therefore love is the highest bliss that man can attain to, for through it alone he truly knows that he is more than himself, and that he is at one with the All.”
Source: Sadhana
“To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.”
Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
“To understand Brahma, understand the structure with the easy (though not apt) example of an org chart that depicts a company or an educational institute that is managed by a board of C-Suite executives. - The universe is managed with invisible powers (in Sanatan Dharma) further by Goddess Laxmi as CFO, Ganesha as Product Owner, Goddess Saraswati as CIO, Narad Muni as HR, Goddess Parvati as Chief Compliance Officer, and many more (for better illustration purposes only).”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.”
“To understand correctly the meaning of the words Alchemy and Astrology, it is necessary to understand and to realize the intimate relationship and identity of the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and their mutual interaction.”
“To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.”
Source: Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
“To understand death is to understand something which is closely related to life.”