Encounter Quotes

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. (François Mauriac)
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. View quote
David Brin
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. View quote
Al Franken
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Dont let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it. View quote
Shaun Tan
No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations. View quote
Ragnar Frisch
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. (Maya Angelou)
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. View quote
Albert Pike
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. View quote
John Milton
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. View quote
Stephan Jenkins
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter. View quote
Rollo May
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions. View quote
Georgy Zhukov
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter. (William Lyon Mackenzie King)
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated. View quote
Ayn Rand
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Some may think that to affirm dialogue--the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world--is naively and subjectively idealistic. There is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans. View quote
Paulo Freire
Before my encounter with Thomist philosophy through Maritain, I had almost reached the same conclusions through the logical development of my work, intuition and thought, but what a great sense of joy I felt upon discovering, in Maritain, the confirmation of certain thought patterns, certain ways of clarifying these to myself and to others. View quote
Gino Severini