Gautama Buddha Quotes
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Quotes to Explore
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Talcott Parsons
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
Oscar Isaac
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
Aaron Sorkin
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
Sam Kean
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
Vanessa Carlton
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
Iain McGilchrist
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
George Bernard Shaw
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Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
Adele
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Katharine Hepburn
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I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
Angelina Jolie
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Society always focuses on the negatives. I think they should focus on things I do well like my Axel. It was really good. It is my job to change society.
Sasha Cohen
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if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
Keith Briffa
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Gautama Buddha