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.

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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

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• 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

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• 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

• I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Support
  • Catholic

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

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Goddess

• I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

  

  Man Ray
  • Art
  • Joker

• 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

• Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

  

  Lord Byron

• 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

• The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.

  

  Arika Okrent
  • Job
  • Describe
  • Linguistic

• When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

  

  Jerry Lewis

• Pensacola isn't Florida, really. It's the Panhandle. It's right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It's, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • Up
  • Home

• It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Love
  • True

• 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