Elude Us Quotes

#1. Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error ...

Carl Sagan

#2. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Norman Maclean

#3. Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Georges Bataille

#4. Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to us: Wag your backside to music instead of your tongue to malice.

Michael Cogdill

#5. In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

Daniel Dennett

#6. We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

Anita Moorjani

#7. Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Georges Bataille

#8. Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Lynn Grabhorn

#9. Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

Andre Gide

#10. Dreams get shattered, hopes are belied, aspirations delude and opportunities elude us. Clouds have the power to conceal the sunshine and our radiance fails to ignite positive thoughts unless we embellish our thoughts and emotions, which can be trained to veer into a positive direction.

Balroop Singh

#11. I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

Angela Davis

#12. The power of psychedelics ... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

Sam Harris

#13. When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

Lawana Blackwell

#14. In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.

Carlos Wallace

#15. While the splendors that elude us in youth are likely to receive our casual contempt in adolescence and our measured consideration in adulthood, they forever hold us in their thrall.

Amor Towles

#16. Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more.

Marian Bendeth

#17. The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.

Anita Moorjani

#18. There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

B.G. Bowers

#19. For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Evelyn Underhill

#20. The stunted pines elude capture
in a thousand sidetracked increments.
The wind will never understand them.
Like us it is forced to go on.

Richard Meier

#21. If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.

Karen Armstrong

#22. Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.

Roberto Bolano

#23. All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#24. If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Barbara Tuchman

#25. Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

Leo Buscaglia

#26. As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Chinua Achebe

#27. It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

William Barrett

#28. General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

William Hazlitt

#29. Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."

Lewis Black

#30. Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

P. J. O'Rourke

#31. What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Andre Gide

#32. Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Mahatma Gandhi