Home / Topics / Long Quotes

Long Quotes

Browse 26935 quotes about Long.

Long Quotes

“The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.”

Way Mind Long Fall Loses Awareness Empty Appearance Mortals Clinging

Author:Bodhidharma

“The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.”

Thinking Long Important Secret Accepting Safe Sacred Appearance Contrary Limitation Secrecy Convenience Propose Deliberation Deviate

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.”

Knows Long Appearance Deceiving Deceitful

Book:Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Large Edition)

Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Large Edition)

“Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.”

Long Mines Judging Appearance Judging Others

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”