Forms Quotes

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak

God, Human, Himself

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Soul, Habits

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Heart, Give, Same

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur

War, Cannot, Opinion

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil

Struggle, Serenity, Against

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Art, Past, Democracy

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden

Both, Almost, Run

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

Best, Government, Whatever

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

Evil, Easy, Infinite

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Character, Live

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon

Art, Fashion, Living

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
Stephen Hawking

Music, Enjoy, Classical

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education, Mind, Common

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt

Opinion, Rules, Morality

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education, Mind, Common

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

Self, Sure, Wild

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John W. Gardner

Strength, Courage, Find

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
John Bradshaw

Life, Truth, Pain

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Joseph Joubert

Beauty, True, Feelings

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis

Thought, Therapy, Deeper

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud

Life, Speak, Fact

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis

Music, Dance, Leaders

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer

Failure, Often, Expression

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Ramakrishna

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller

Men, Heart, True

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis

Money, Poetry, Thinking

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Eric Cantona

Reality, Ways, Mystery

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
Tom Allen

Best, Character, While

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Doug Coupland

Strong, Brain, Die

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel

Love, Beauty, Human

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