Encounter Quotes - page 2

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth... View quote
Emil Cioran
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Parents: If you encounter teenagers who say they liked this movie, do not let them date your children. View quote
Roger Ebert
When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be. View quote
André Maurois
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. View quote
Francis de Sales
The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter. (Bell hooks)
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high. View quote
Denis Diderot
The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity, this is something truly good, a gift from God. View quote
Pope Francis
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune-what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. View quote
Susanne Langer
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N. S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities. View quote
Martin Heidegger
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. View quote
E. W. Howe
The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré. View quote
Michel Seuphor
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes. (Bill Mollison)
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it. View quote
Stefan Zweig