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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The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

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

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Self Quotes , Body 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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Self Quotes , Departure Quotes

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Museums Quotes , Self Quotes

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Games Quotes

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Hands 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

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Self Quotes , Diversity Quotes

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

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Tags : Adam Rodriguez Quotes , Self Quotes , Being True Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Self Quotes , Purpose Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Self Quotes , Excellence Quotes

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes