Remains Quotes

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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  What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  Albert Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

  William Harvey

  Knowledge, Knowing, Physicians

  "Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology".

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• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Courage, Pain

  "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

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• The world remains ever the same.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.117, Ravenio Books

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• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

  Marie Curie

  Positive, Inspiring, Moving On

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• A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Cousin, Often Is

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

  Henny Youngman

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Forbes Magazine, Volume 166 (p. 156), 2000.

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• Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Fashion, Style

  "Architectural Digest" Magazine, (p. 30), September 1994.

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• But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Past, Benefits, Hindsight

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Oct 12, 2012

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Nature, Buddhist, Knowledge

  Namkhai Norbu (1986). “The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen”, p.94, Shambhala

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• What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Greatness, Land, Needs

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “The Remains of the Day”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Business, Children

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• Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

  George Santayana

  Emotional, Feelings, Ends

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.36, MIT Press

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, Progress, Savages

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin

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• Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Buddhist, Siddhartha

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• People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

  Stedman Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Viruses, Messages

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Pertinent, Calmness, Restraint

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

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• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Theories pass. The frog remains.

  Jean Rostand

  Frogs, Theory

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