Oneself Quotes - Page 24

• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Thinking, Fire

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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Experience, Labor

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Experience, Daily Life, Life Is

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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• Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

  Maxim Gorky

  Needs, Genius, Actors

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• The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Knowing Nothing, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

  Anatole France

  Moral, Opinion, Manners

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• To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

  George Santayana

  Elude, Classic, Psychological

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.533, Indiana University Press

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• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

  Denis Diderot

  Mad, Psychological, Harm

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• To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

  Plato

  Pick Me Up, Victory, Development And Growth

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• Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Wall, Past

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “The Flame of Attention”, Harper San Francisco

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• To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

  Albert Camus

  Hurt, Earth, Injury

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

  Walker Percy

  Fun, Doe, Persons

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and often in contradiction to one's socialization. […] This indicates that some aspects of feminine verbal and aesthetic expression precede and/or supersede gender socialization.

  Julia Serano

  Expression, Childhood, May

  Julia Serano (2007). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.323, Seal Press

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• To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

  Nisio Isin

  World, Boring, Ambiguity

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• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

  May Sarton

  Holiday, Giving, Environmental

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

  Lee Bolman

  Leadership, Offering, Essence

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• In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

  Andre Gide

  Country, Order, Judging

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.277, Routledge

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• Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Spiritual, Growth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Romantic, Views, People

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Mean, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Philosophy, Law, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  A.J. Cronin

  Motivational, Success, Achievement

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• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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