Quotes About World

Patton, an avid horseman, didn't know what to think. "It struck me as rather strange that, in the midst of a world at war, some twenty young and middle-aged men in great physical condition… had spent their entire time teaching a group of horses to wiggle their butts and raise their feet in consonance with certain signals from the heels and reins.

For families with larger amounts of wealth, marriages in the ancient world were the equivalent of today's business mergers or investment partnerships.

Technology tries to prevent us from asking deeper questions. The megatechnology society believes that there is a technological solution to every problem. This would be correct only if the world were a machine.

Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, mitigate, counteract, or transmute.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran's terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.