Huston Smith Quotes

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

Huston Smith

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Mom

• We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • American
  • Son

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Philosophy
  • Knowing
  • Limits

• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Goddess

• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • Shadow

• One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • She
  • Christian
  • Serious

• I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • History

• I abhor hypocrisy.

  

  Don Lemon

• The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • People
  • Future

• If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

  

  David Whyte
  • Up
  • Destiny

• I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

  

  Jason Dohring
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Wisdom
  • Fart
  • Puffed up

• We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Destroyed