Gains Quotes - Page 11

Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.