Pythagoras Quotes

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

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• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Characters

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Person
  • Poor
  • Interests

• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Ashamed
  • Who

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Exist
  • Prejudice

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Peace

• If your mind dislike anything obey it

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Dislike

• Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country affords its inhabitants the opportunities that the U.S.A. gives to its people.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Week
  • Disease
  • Soap

• Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Sought