Surpassing Quotes

• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Demand, Reason

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Inspire, Dying

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Green, Tongue

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Sky, Unusual

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• It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

  Howard Carter

  Sight, Vision, Precedent

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• Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thankful

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Motivational Sports, Average

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2016

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• The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

  Audre Lorde

  Love You, Creativity, Missing

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• Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

  Naomi Wolf

  Truth, Women Empowerment, Empowering Women

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• Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

  John Amos Comenius

  Teacher, Educational, Giving

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• It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

  Liu Dan

  Chance, Artistic, Masters

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25 2010.

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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• The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

  Emily Dickinson

  Artist, Spiders, Merit

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.418, Harvard University Press

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• Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Meditation, Sage, Calm

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

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• Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sleep, Grace, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

  Phil Jackson

  Teamwork, Attitude, Player

  "Phil Jackson's new book focuses a lot on (who else?) Kobe Bryant" by Mike Bresnahan, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2013.

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• It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

  Herodotus

  Greatness, Lows, All Things

  "The Histories. Book 7". Book by Herodotus, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.

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• Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

  Mark Bernstein

  Goal, Paper, Internet

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