Top 100 Essence Of Quotes
#1. And then I tasted a sharp acid rising in my stomach. It is an acquired taste, the essence of fear.
Kathy Hatfield
#2. The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
Timothy Keller
#3. Certainly, it could be otherwise. Religion and race could completely recede as decisive factors in the life of a people and of nations in favor of humanity, which alone determines the value and essence of the person.
Agnes Grunwald-Spier
#4. All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.
E. M. Forster
#7. The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".
Herbert Butterfield
#8. Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
Neal A. Maxwell
#9. Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#11. The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people ... We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.
Enrique Penalosa
#13. Therefore, according to the Bible, the essence of a city was not the population's size but its density. A city is a social form in which people physically live in close proximity to one another.
Timothy Keller
#14. Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#15. The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
Colin Powell
#16. Draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Eckhart Tolle
#17. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#18. Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.
Yagyu Munenori
#19. I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good citizenship. It is too easy to say that a good shot is automatically a good man, but it would be equally incorrect to ignore the connection.
Jeff Cooper
#20. Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
Plato
#21. I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
Mary Ellen Mark
#22. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Radhanath Swami
#24. Reason gives expression to the laws of inevitability. Consciousness gives expression to the essence of freedom.
Leo Tolstoy
#26. Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
#27. The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
#28. A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
Thomas Merton
#29. To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.
Al Ries
#30. The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.
Mahavatar Babaji
#31. The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.
Tony Honore
#33. This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.
David Platt
#34. minimize your material-world concerns and to put more of your energy into the essence of life, which is love and service.
Wayne W. Dyer
#35. The essence of life: be good to all souls like you seek them to be good to your soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
Paul Strand
#37. Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?
Andrew Davidson
#38. Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.
M. Mitchell Waldrop
#39. The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.
John Dunne
#40. I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.
Moshe Safdie
#41. Curiosity is the essence of our existence.
Gene Cernan
#42. Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Anne Rice
#43. The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Joseph Joubert
#44. The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.
Martin Wolf
#45. There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.
Craig Groeschel
#46. We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
Christian De Portzamparc
#47. For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of global extinctions. But always there are people who know how to gather the essence of life and hold it safely, protect it and nurture it until the next seeding.
Peter Kingsley
#48. The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
Barbara Boxer
#49. She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
George Burns
#50. I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
Sandra Bernhard
#51. Just because you don't know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn't mean you shouldn't allow yourself to really, really want it. That's the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles.
Silvia Hartmann
#52. Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
Niall Williams
#53. The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though
Henri Bergson
#55. Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power. It
John Calvin
#56. The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.
Alan Redpath
#57. The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Maxwell Anderson
#58. The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.
Madonna Ciccone
#59. There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#60. The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#61. You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.
Jude Law
#62. To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.
Charles Eisenstein
#63. The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
Sri Aurobindo
#64. The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#65. The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#66. The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being ... ... tarnished.
Mankind can no longer survive on its own.
Robin Alleyna
#67. The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.
Debasish Mridha
#69. I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being ...
Olivia Newton-John
#70. The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing
James Gleick
#71. That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.
Milan Kundera
#72. The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan
#73. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#74. The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.
Georges Rodenbach
#75. All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#76. The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
Marie Kondo
#77. Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
Georges Bataille
#78. Even if you haven't received a lot of love from others in your life yet doesn't mean you lack love or that you will never share love with another. Love is the essence of your soul.
Annette Vaillancourt
#79. Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
Joan Halifax
#80. We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.
Oswald Chambers
#82. As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
Lesley Gore
#83. Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a
people.
Vine Deloria Jr.
#84. Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
Felix Alba-Juez
#85. Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.
Debasish Mridha
#86. The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
John Stott
#87. What's really terrifying is when you realize that bureaucracy isn't simply a growth on the body of the State. If it were only that, it could be cut off. No, bureaucracy is the very essence of the State.
Vasily Grossman
#89. This painting was created by someone who spent endless hours observing their subject and applying precise strokes of paint in patterns to replicate what their mind said was the essence of the person who stood before them.
Mike Wech
#90. Reminding is the essence of organizing.
Fred Ross
#91. For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.
Andrew Bacevich
#92. I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep
#93. Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#94. I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
Madeleine L'Engle
#95. A novel is designed to stimulate our minds and imagination without any visuals, other than the constructed text."
"An author's job is to breath life into words for the reader. That is the core essence of what we do.
Efthalia
#96. In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
#97. The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.
Thomas Harris
#99. Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
Paul Gauguin
