Carl Sagan Quotes, Self Quotes, Dumb Quotes

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

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You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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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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Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

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Tags : Al Goldstein Quotes , Self Quotes , Giving Quotes

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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I am the self-consumer of my woes.

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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

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