Rumi Quotes

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

Rumi

• Nature
• Person
• Ignorance
• Leader
• Chosen

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• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
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• I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.

  

  Natasha Little
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• In America, public opinion is the leader.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • America
  • Opinion
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• In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

  

  Ted Ligety
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• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Running

• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hidden

• The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Reality

• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Nature
  • Law

• As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

  

  Edward Young
  • Nature
  • Sleep
  • Sweet

• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • God
  • Nature

• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Nature

• Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Nature
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• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
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• One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Long
  • Nature

• I just got back from Hawaii on Saturday, and it's so depressing how quickly all the stresses and the stressful energy of L.A. comes bombarding back. Everyone's in a rush, you're annoying everyone, get out of their way, everyone's most important than you are, has got somewhere more important to be - very draining town. But I still love it in many ways. I wouldn't leave California. I think it's a fantastic state, if you can't be in Hawaii all the time.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • Important
  • Energy

• I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Lying
  • Sacrifice
  • Order

• For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Study
  • Obvious

• 'Personally,' Scorpio said, 'I think it’s time to stop thinking chivalry and start thinking artillery.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

  

  Rumi
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Ignorance