D. T. Suzuki Quotes

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

D. T. Suzuki

• Silence
• Ignorance
• Enlightenment

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Control
  • Choose

• Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Nature

• I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • See
  • Intent

• Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Ready

• I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Home
  • Night
  • Dance

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• 'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Win
  • Thing
  • Idol

• People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Summer

• Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."

  

  Abraham Michael Rosenthal
  • Important
  • Worry
  • Silence

• My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe.' Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it’s spoken, can mean 'The Flame,' 'The Thunder,' or 'The Broken Tree.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Great
  • Important
  • Broken

• I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.

  

  John Noble
  • Together

• We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country
  • Drastic steps

• If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Silence
  • Ignorance
  • Enlightenment