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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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

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Giving Quotes

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hero Quotes , Self Quotes

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self Quotes , Envy Quotes

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Hands Quotes , Self Quotes

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

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

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Self 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

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

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Tags : Alan Rufus Quotes , Moving Quotes , Self Quotes

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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

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

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Self Quotes , Long Quotes

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Fear Quotes , Self Quotes

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Spring Quotes , Self Quotes

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Echoes Quotes , Self Quotes