Gaps quotes
242 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity."
"The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in."
"The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps."
"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God."
"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
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"Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand."
"The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide."
"Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become."
"When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories."
"The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled."
"That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind."
"Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?"
"I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at."
"The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region."
"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest."
"The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts."
"Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you."
"Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words."
"It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe."
"This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process."
"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."
"It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes."
"The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it."
"Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded."
"The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less."
