T. S. Eliot Quotes

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

  T. S. Eliot

  Pride, People, Important

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lessons

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• If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Silence, Firsts

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• Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

  T. S. Eliot

  Done, Turns, Wanted

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• The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Class, Mob Rule

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• The journey, Not the destination matters.

  T. S. Eliot

  Journey, Matter, Destination

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• Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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  Simple, Way, Life Is

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• If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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  Boundaries, Knows, Ifs

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• To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• We should not confuse information with knowledge.

  T. S. Eliot

  Information, Should

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• I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

  T. S. Eliot

  Long, Notes, Please

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “The Cocktail Party”

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• When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Crazy, Opposites

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• Every moment is a fresh beginning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Successful

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.938, Faber & Faber

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• It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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  Perfect, Design, Needs

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• Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

  T. S. Eliot

  Journey, Ends

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Poetry, Trying

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophical, Humility, Thinking

  "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927)

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• Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends

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• Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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  People, Evil, Done

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

  T. S. Eliot

  Relationship, Memories, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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