Finds Quotes

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.