T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing.”
“To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.”
“To understand what you read you must at first understand the mind in which they grew.”
“To understand where things went wrong, we have to go back 15,000 years to the end of the last ice age. Up until then the planet had been sparsely populated and people banded together to stave off the cold. Rather than a struggle for survival, it was a snuggle for survival in which we kept each other warm.”
“To understand who will be fit for your product, you have to first understand your ideal customers’ needs, wants and preferences.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.”
“To understand why kids from low-income households do poorly in school, we would do well to understand what their lives at home are like. But we must also step back and situate their lives within the broader social context. This includes trying to understand whta material conditions are like for parents, what school experiences are like for kids, and finally and least often done, what higher-income families are doing for their kids. It is when we do all this that we can have a more complete and accurate understanding of how kids from low-income families, within this system, are compelled to play a game they cannot win because someone else is setting the rules.”
“To understand why my health was failing, I applied astronomical knowledge to my mind and body.”
“To understand why, submit and apply.”
Source: Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication
“To understand Woodstock was impossible if you weren't there. Our national culture has drifted, progressed and regressed to suit the age. Chronologically handicapped, I grok this was a sacred experience forever locked away.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“To understand your direction, you must know both your roots and your reach.”
Source: The Woman in the White Kimono
“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”
“To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.”
“To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon
“To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.”
“To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!”
“To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.”
“To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.”
Source: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities
“To unite, empathize, love and lift across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“To unite this whole world with the thread of acceptance and harmony, may sound like a titanic task, but all it takes is one generation of conscientious and responsible citizens in each nation - if only these handful of young members of the society around the world take up the responsibility to raise, not citizens of a nation, but citizens of a planet, then no force in the world can keep the process of unification of humans manifesting in front of our eyes.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn”
Source: Politics
“To unlearn is not to erase, but to expose the truths hidden beneath the lies you've been taught. Sovereignty is not found in obedience, but in the courage to question the very definitions that bind you. Freedom begins when you shatter the chains of certainty and rebuild with doubt as your foundation.”
“To unlearn the bullshit one has learned takes more than a life time.”
“To unlock one's potential is to embark on a journey of clarity and self-discovery and uncover the treasures hidden within the depths of our being.”
“To unmask is to lay bare a proud face of noncompliance, to refuse to be silenced, to stop being compartmentalized and hidden away, and to stand powerfully in our wholeness alongside other disabled and marginalized folks. Together we can stand strong and free, shielded by the powerful, radical acceptance that comes only when we know who we are, and with the recognition that we never had anything to hide.”
Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
“To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.”
“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“To unravel any mystery, find the start. Untie that riddle, and the rest will follow.”
Source: Delphine and the Silver Needle
“To unself the soul is to unfold happiness.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.'”
“To upset the order of nature, and even more the order of God, who, for us, is more natural than nature itself, is to destroy the harmony of forces; and violence, unbending against the rebellion of things, against the more terrible rebellion of souls, is the only refuge of him who wishes to maintain unity at all costs.”
Source: The Church
“To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.”
“To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.”
“To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.”
Source: The Test of Freedom
“To us and a wonderful evening of love making.”
“To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream – a rare treat in the early 1950s”
“To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.”
“To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery.”
Source: Mr. Monster
“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.”
Source: History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy
“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.”
Source: History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy
“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”
“To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.”
“To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self).”
“To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. It’s ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says people don’t want real. They want the idea of real, which involves production.”
Source: Vicarious
“To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.”