Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 3)

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly"

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

"Fear is excitement without breath"

"There is no art without Eros"

"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project"

Anne Grant, Poet

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still"

Nagarjuna, Philosopher

"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Ability is nothing without opportunity"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Ability without honor is useless"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser"

Plato, Philosopher

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous"

Confucius, Philosopher

"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living"

Helen Keller, Author

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

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