Chooses Quotes

• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Choice
  • Both
  • Pessimist

• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Things

• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  

  William Blake
  • Joys
  • Priest
  • Chooses

• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Actions
  • Passions

• When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

  

  Euripides
  • Wise
  • Arguments
  • Chooses

• The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

  

  James Cook
  • Rate
  • Judged
  • Chooses

• Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Free
  • Voluntarily
  • Inexorably

• A free press is equally free to print the truth or ignore it, as it chooses.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Press
  • Print
  • Chooses

• I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Surgery

• To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Character
  • Science
  • Flight

• The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love Is
  • Chooses
  • Bottom Line

• I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Know
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Content
  • Chooses

• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Desires
  • Mammon

• An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Artist
  • Chooses
  • Praises

• Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Existence
  • Chooses
  • Resignation

• You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Pride
  • Reflect
  • Chooses

• It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Art
  • Chance
  • Slice

• We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

  

  David Levien
  • Destiny
  • Chooses

• No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

  

  Aristotle
  • Rest
  • Act
  • Thinks

• Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Judge
  • Reply

• Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

  

  David Boaz
  • Person
  • Equal
  • Respects

• There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

  

  Jane Austen
  • Duty
  • Chooses
  • Manoeuvring

• It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Hear
  • Chances
  • Slice

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