"Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success."
Read quote
6 likes
Doe quotes
Doe
11.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Doe
Browse quotes that often appear alongside doe — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Doe quotes (page 94 of 564)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
Read quote
6 likes
"As I have told you before, in a manner of speaking you are given the gifts of gods. Your beliefs become reality. What you believe is, and becomes real in your experience. There is no area in your life to which this does not apply."
Read quote
6 likes
"It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?"
Read quote
6 likes
"No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are."
Read quote
6 likes
"Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?"
Read quote
6 likes
"Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk."
Read quote
6 likes
"Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it."
Read quote
6 likes
"The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content."
Read quote
6 likes
"Time does us violence; it is the only violence."
Read quote
6 likes
"Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole."
Read quote
6 likes
"Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed."
Read quote
6 likes
"For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!"
Read quote
6 likes
"A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception."
Read quote
6 likes
"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace."
Read quote
6 likes
"The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it."
Read quote
6 likes
"An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic."
Read quote
6 likes
"The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea."
Read quote
6 likes
"We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism."
Read quote
6 likes
"Does God say, "cut back on the sunsets?" No, our Maker is abundant."
Read quote
6 likes