Top 1200 Self-Evident Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.