(439 quotes found)
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.”
Ayn Rand
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”
Maya Angelou
“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
“Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.”
John Kotter
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Carl Gustav Jung