Surpassing Quotes

• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Demand, Reason

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Inspire, Dying

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Green, Tongue

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Sky, Unusual

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• It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

  Howard Carter

  Sight, Vision, Precedent

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• Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thankful

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Motivational Sports, Average

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2016

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• The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

  Audre Lorde

  Love You, Creativity, Missing

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• Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

  Naomi Wolf

  Truth, Women Empowerment, Empowering Women

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• Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

  John Amos Comenius

  Teacher, Educational, Giving

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• It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

  Liu Dan

  Chance, Artistic, Masters

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25 2010.

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  Richard Owen

  Character, Science, Order

  Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science "Report on British Fossil Reptiles" (1842)

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• A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

  Quintilian

  Men, Trying, Followers

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• The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Book, Tables

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• A richer present I design,
  A finished form, of work divine,
  Surpassing all the power of art;
  A thinking head, a grateful heart.

  Mary Barber

  Gratitude, Art, Grateful

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• And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

  Martin Heidegger

  Distance, Men, Doe

  Martin Heidegger (1969). “The essence of reasons”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Records, Behavior

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.285, Penguin

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• In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in the flow of human dealings - I lean my head slowly to one side, reflect on the camellia on the moss on the temple, reflect on a cup of tea, while outside the wind is rustling foliage, the forward rush of life is crystalized in a brilliant jewel of a moment that knows neither projects nor future, human destiny is rescued from the pale succession of days, glows with light at last and, surpassing time, warms my tranquil heart.

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Destiny, Jewels

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

  Steven Pressfield

  Betrayal, War, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2010). “Gates Of Fire”, p.29, Random House

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• Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Accomplishment, Creative

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Intelligent, Men, Order

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