T Quotes
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“The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.”
“The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.”
“The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.”
“The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
“The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.”
“The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.”
“The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.”
“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”
Source: Process and Reality
“The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.”
“The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.”
Source: Lecture on War
“The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!”
“The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
Source: The Metaphysics
“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.”
Source: The Prince
“The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.”
Source: Witness
“The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.”
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
“The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.”
“The chief guide which must direct us in the choice of a profession is the welfare of mankind and our own perfection. It should not be thought that these two interests could be in conflict, that one would have to destroy the other; on the contrary, man's nature is so constituted that he can attain his own perfection only by working for the perfection, for the good, of his fellow men.
If he works only for himself, he may perhaps become a famous man of learning, a great sage, an excellent poet, but he can never be a perfect, truly great man.
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy; religion itself teaches us that the ideal being whom all strive to copy sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind, and who would dare to set at nought such judgments?
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”
“The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.”
Source: Complete Works
“The chief imagination of Christendom,
Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
That he has made that hollow face of his
More plain to the mind's eye than any face
But that of Christ.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
“The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1
“The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.”
“The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.”
“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.”
“The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.”
“The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the anxiety quotient has long since replaced the pleasure or achievement quotient. It is possible to use even cooking, clothes, cosmetics and housekeeping for fun. The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. In these cases spontaneity means rejecting the norm, the standard that one must live up to, and establishing a self-regulating principle.”
Source: the female eunuch
“The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result of decree, force or manipulation. Jesus always kept his strength to make loving choices. He calls us to make loving choices necessary to be the servant of all." "Humility permits me to own my feelings – and to admit them. Now I'm free to say, ‘I'm angry’. I'm free to admit what I am reacting to. I am free to ask if anger is what the person wanted to produce in me, and to ask for help in changing if my reaction is inappropriate.”
Source: The Jesus Style
“The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.”
Source: Galen On the Natural Faculties
“The chief merit of language is clearness.”
Source: On the natural faculties
“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.”
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.”
“The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.”
Source: Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping
“The chief objection to playing God is that someone else is God already.”
Source: What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
“The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.”
“The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.”
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
“The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.”
Source: Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world
“The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.”
Source: The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist. From the Fr. of J.N. Grou, ed. by W.H. Hutchings
“The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.”
“The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables - either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.”