Victor Hugo Quotes, Dream Quotes, Self Quotes

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Self Quotes

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Self Quotes , Contentment Quotes

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

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Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Self Quotes , Taoism Quotes

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Attachment Quotes , Self Quotes

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

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Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Echoes Quotes , Self Quotes

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

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Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Self Quotes , Discipline Quotes

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

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Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Assessment Quotes , Self Quotes

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Self Quotes

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

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