Guides Quotes

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  The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, America, Liberty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Hands, Catholic

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• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  Dan Millman

  Faith, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.55, H J Kramer

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• Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

  Kingsley Amis

  Self, Criticism, Employment

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Ethics

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• An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

  Donald Cram

  Fog, Should Have, Ideas

  Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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• Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Light

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• The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

  Herbert Read

  Law, Growth, Balance

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Communication

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 08, 2015

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• I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

  Elle Macpherson

  Children, Believe, Choices

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• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

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• What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Different, Function, Marxism

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• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  Edgar Cayce

  Feelings, Feeling Lost, Deeds

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• Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

  James Payn

  Matter, Pursuit, Courses

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Creative, Intellectual, Spirit

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• I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

  Thom Gunn

  Writing, People, Bars

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• For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Moving, Want

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• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Life, Way, Good Company

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.368

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• But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

  Joseph Butler

  Life, Statistics, Calculus

  'The Analogy of Religion' (1736) 'Introduction'

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• The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

  Douglas Adams

  Reality, Statistics

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.223, Del Rey

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• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Way, Mines

  Buffalo Bill (1939). “Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill."”, Ayer Company Pub

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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.353

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