Guide Quotes - page 2

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. (John Burroughs)
other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours. View quote
Melody Beattie
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. View quote
Herbie Hancock
You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear. View quote
Lora Leigh
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. View quote
Henry Reed
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image. View quote
Rollo May
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief. View quote
George Henry Lewes
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient. View quote
Amartya Sen
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves. View quote
Ferdinand Marcos
God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night. (José Rizal)
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. View quote
Cicero
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
You must surrender before you can guide. View quote
Robert Jordan
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair. View quote
Saadi
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power. View quote
Georges Cuvier
For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse. View quote
Lucian
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe. View quote
Ramakrishna
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me. (Brian Cowen)
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters. View quote
E. M. Forster
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Music has been a shaping force... music has been there to guide the development of human nature. View quote
Daniel Levitin