Best universal & persons Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.”

Persons Used President Economy Huge Universal France Charisma Suffrage Universal Suffrage

Author:Francois Hollande

“Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.”

Persons Energy Ability Consciousness Influence Style Humility Personality Genius Higher Universal Patterns Definitions Insight Access Characteristics High Energy

Author:David R. Hawkins

“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”

“Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.”

Humans Persons Problem Universe Common Achieve Subjects Buddhism Birth All Things Universal Buddhist Cycles Emancipation Birth And Death Transience

Book:Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

Source: Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

“I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.”

People Giving Believe Persons Spiritual I Believe Religious Levels Principles Practice Source Highest Glory Conscience Universal Including Credit Timeless Spiritual Intelligence

Author:Stephen Covey

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”

“while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.”

Ifs Men Persons Stories Life Is Passion Individual Subjects Drama Universal Traits Biographers Idiosyncrasies Foibles Everyman

Author:Iris Origo

“the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?”

Looks Persons Answers Rooms Party Talking Universal Tonight Cocktails Cocktail Parties

Author:Letitia Baldrige

“Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.”

Ifs Wells Persons Law Goal Natural Trouble Conflict Universal Abandon Science And Religion Laws Of Nature Natural Law Universal Laws

Author:Bill Nye

“At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.”

Persons Problem Taught College Approach Universal Difficulty Tendencies

Author:Markus Wolf

“Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.”

Persons Desire Passion Gains Universal Greed All Time Avarice

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.”

Thinking Persons Long Important Humanity Universal More Time Truthful Relatable Thematic

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.”

Ifs Persons Made Pain Desire Names Given Principles Universal Praise Vanity If I Could Admiration Confession Indifferent Secrecy Applause Snuff

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.”

Persons Law Universal Harmony Appearance Factors Proportion Plus Universal Laws

Book:Power of the Plus Factor

Source: Power of the Plus Factor

“"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.”

Ifs Mean Persons Seems Might Dies Bits Class Struggle Rich Negative Universal Determined Working Class Get Rich

Author:Curtis Jackson

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

Mean Persons Causes Wealth Poor Powerful Moral Rich Conditions Worship Universal Corruption Admire Inequality Neglect Sentiments Despise Disposition

Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.”

Knows Men Persons Song Born Gay Universal Injustice Theme Lgbt Born Gay Universal Themes

Author:Corey Hart

“The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.”

Humans Persons Race Universal Human Race Incompetent

Book:The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Source: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

“Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.”

“When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole process and I've signed this 60-page document that says what we can and can't do, I suppose it will be a little bit easier for the next person.”

Firsts Littles Persons Ideas Whole Next Bits Process Gone Easier Little Bit Pages Universal No Idea Documents Pursued

Author:DJ Shadow

“What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.”

Trying Persons Actors Universal

Author:Finn Wittrock

“The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.”

Way Persons Moments Today Lying Desire Behinds Consciousness Share Drug Activity Ego Universal Longing Boundaries Intense Our Society New Ways Making Love Society Today

Author:Andrew Weil

“But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.”

Men Persons Self Universe Personality Gains Universal Filled Mastery Egocentric Confinement

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."”

Knows Writing Humans Persons Doe Sometimes Happens Black Term Human Beings White Situation Universal Like Me Describing Black White

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I think if you're convinced that you're evil, and that God has had to rescue you, then the best you can be is grateful. But nobody ever loves the person they have to be perpetually grateful to. That's just not the way it works in humanity. You need to be set free. You need to be loved just as you are so that you can become all that you can be. That's the direction we have to turn the Christian message; when we do, it becomes universal.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Persons Christian Humanity Turns Evil Messages Universal Grateful Convinced Rescue

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.”

Men Heart Persons Important Wish Normal Universal Mad Errors Bones Crave Trash Crude Militant Universal Love Important Person

Author:W. H. Auden

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

Firsts Persons Law Humility Universal Profound Ill Tolerance Educated Behave Arrogant Intolerance Impatience Inadequate Universal Laws Educated Person

Book:August 1914

Source: August 1914

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

Kind Persons Facts Feelings Seeing Universal Stranger All Kinds Curious Dressings Familiarity Disadvantages Gowns Universal Education Cold Comfort Farm

Book:Cold comfort farm

Source: Cold comfort farm

“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.”

“Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.”

Persons Doe Real Acceptance Shapes Universal Currency Warp Real Friendship Wrenches

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.”

Ifs World Persons Two Individual Offers Perfection Universal Dawn Vibrations Deep Within Invoke Outer Worlds

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.”

“Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.”

“There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.”

Ifs Men Persons Opinion Society Theory Universal Tendencies Discussion Suspects Attacking Objectivity Good Faith

Author:Karl Popper

“In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.”

“You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !”

Wells Persons Eye Force Creativity Forever Changed Arms Universal Galaxy Psychedelic Mystic Spirals

Author:Alex Grey

“The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.”

Way Mean Persons Whole Christian Dies Prayer Sacrifice Dying Divine Becoming Ego Universal Jew Disappear Surrender Trust In God Emphasis Altars Praying To God God Prayer Surrender To God

Author:Rajneesh

“I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.”

Source: The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex

“Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer.”

Wells Persons Made Moments Energy Creative Subjects Photography Evidence Connections Universal Depth Photographer Dedicated Portraits Viewers Transcendent Primal Creative Energy

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.”

Men Want Persons Country Use Dream Might America Possibility He Man Thirds Universal Advertising Consumers Fulfilled Suggestions Entering Third Person

Book:Americana

Source: Americana

“I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.”

“A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.”

“There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal. Hidden in all of the personal communications which I really hear there seem to be orderly psychological laws, aspects of the same order we find in the universe as a whole. So there is both the satisfaction of hearing this person and also the satisfaction of feeling one's self in touch with what is universally true.”

Source: A Way of Being

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