[ being Quotes ]
352 Quotations
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
[ Belief ]
Jean Rostand
5 votes
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
[ Belief ]
Leo Rosten
7 votes
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
[ Writers and Writing ]
Leo Rosten
4 votes
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
[ Truth ]
Jean Jacques Rousseau
7 votes
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
Jean Jacques Rousseau
9 votes
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
[ Fishing ]
John Ruskin
9 votes
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
[ Education ]
John Ruskin
4 votes
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
[ Self-reliance ]
Patricia Sampson
1 votes
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
[ Humankind ]
Nathalie Sarraute
3 votes
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
May Sarton
4 votes
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
[ Wine ]
French Saying
5 votes
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
[ Maturity ]
Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg
11 votes
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
[ Sacrifice ]
Albert Schweitzer
2 votes
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
[ Uncategorised ]
Albert Schweitzer
5 votes
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
Seneca
2 votes
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
[ Hatred ]
George Bernard Shaw
21 votes
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
[ Humankind ]
George Bernard Shaw
17 votes
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
[ Morality ]
George Bernard Shaw
5 votes
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
[ Experts ]
George Bernard Shaw
4 votes
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
Solomon Short
3 votes
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
[ Morality ]
Rick Shuman
2 votes
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
[ Pessimism ]
Isaac Bashevis Singer
3 votes
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
[ Power ]
Sydney Smith
5 votes
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
[ Performance ]
Sam Snead
3 votes
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
[ Misers and Misery ]
Gertrude Stein
1 votes
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
[ Modern and Modernism ]
Wallace Stevens
6 votes
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
[ Husbands ]
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 votes
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
[ Uncategorised ]
Robert Louis Stevenson
5 votes
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
[ Duty ]
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 votes
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
[ Love ]
Igor Stravinsky
7 votes
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
[ Hell ]
Billy Sunday
5 votes
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
[ Success ]
Paul Sweeney
1 votes
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
[ Happiness ]
Jonathan Swift