Plato Quotes, Science Quotes, Self Quotes

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Welfare Quotes

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Self Quotes , Looks Quotes

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Self Quotes , Luxury Quotes

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Unique Quotes , Self Quotes

I am the self-consumer of my woes.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Self Quotes , Woe Quotes

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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Tags : Aidan Chambers Quotes , Self Quotes , Doe Quotes

Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Self Quotes

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Self Quotes , Care Quotes

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Self Quotes , Way Quotes

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Self Quotes , Torture Quotes

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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Tags : Aimee Semple McPherson Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Self Quotes , Way Quotes

Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Self Quotes , Inquiry Quotes

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes