Attain Quotes

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. (Laozi)
Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. View quote
Émile Zola
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. View quote
David Hume
Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time. View quote
William Hazlitt
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world. View quote
Blaise Cendrars
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. (Samuel Johnson)
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. View quote
Don DeLillo
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. View quote
Eugène Delacroix
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning. View quote
Vitruvius
In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them. View quote
Vitruvius
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. View quote
Mark Twain
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. View quote
Ulrich Beck
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. (Venerable Bede)
When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. View quote
Maimonides