Tiger Woods (Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods) Quotes

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • View

• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Sometimes
  • Growth
  • Personal

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Literature
  • Enlightenment

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Rap

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

  

  David Cameron
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment

• I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Enlightenment

• Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

  

  Kyan Douglas
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Enlightenment

• Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Enlightenment

• Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Lies

• In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Doubt

• Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Everyday
  • Enlightenment

• Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sides

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.

  

  Prince Charles
  • World
  • Teachers
  • Geography

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Attention
  • Special
  • Wit

• I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Human Beings
  • Enlightenment