Top 100 One Need Quotes
#1. One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.
Friedrich Hayek
#2. Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.
David F. Dinges
#3. One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.
Zoroaster
#4. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.
Fiona Paul
#5. An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
Cynthia Ozick
#6. One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.
W. Edwards Deming
#7. Is contentment death? Does one need to want in order to live?
A.M. Homes
#8. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
#9. One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
Sun Tzu
#10. With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.
John Wooden
#11. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
D.E. Stevenson
#12. How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
#14. I'd been an idiot to think that this was anything but a quest. Searches were nice and soft and cuddly and no one need be killed. A quest always demanded the death of a trusted colleague and one or more difficult dilemmas. I'd been in denial. I'd been a fool.
Jasper Fforde
#15. I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.
Nigel Farage
#16. There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.
Virginia Aird
#17. My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all ... All my heart has ever wanted is you.
Stephanie Laurens
#18. You see that one man will give a reward for the recovery of his tup, while another will only give thanks for the rescue of his wife. I suggest to you that one need not read the articles in the newspaper at all, for here - in the humble notices - all humanity is laid bare.
Jane Harris
#19. Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.
Santosh Avvannavar
#20. And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.
Graham Greene
#21. Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one's guard to be offered sex under the cloaking of the sacred.
Thomm Quackenbush
#22. I am highly indebted to all my mentors.
Every one need a mentor for guidance and support.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
Ian Hacking
#24. How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.
Anne Frank
#25. It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#26. But one need not believe in psychic powers to cut through the illusion of the self. Accomplishing this can be elusive enough. If I've met a person who has done so perfectly, I am unaware of it.
Sam Harris
#27. One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.
Jeff Cooper
#29. To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
Barbara Deming
#30. One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
Martin Buber
#31. I've been told by professional drug users that if I did the drugs, I would like the Dead. It seems like the most effective PSA against drugs could just play some Dead jams and say, "If you do drugs, you will like this kind of music." What other deterrent would one need?
Penn Jillette
#32. A girl's gotta have her Mystery.
You can hardly win at poker if your cards lay bare on the table for all to see...
One need be Strategic...
Daleen Van Tonder
#33. One need not love one's enemy, or even fear him, to desire peace. One need only love oneself.
Joe Abercrombie
#34. Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.
Jack McDevitt
#35. One can traverse the Eastern paths simply by becoming interested in the nature of one's own mind - especially in the immediate causes of psychological suffering - and by paying closer attention to one's experience in every present moment. There is, in truth, nothing one need believe.
Sam Harris
#36. I think it's easy
to confuse love with other things.
Lust, for one. Need, for another
Ellen Hopkins
#37. The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James
#38. Women want to find one man to satisfy their many needs while men want
many women to satisfy their one need.
Anka Radakovich
#39. Just as it matters little whether you lay a sick man on a wooden or on a golden bed, for whithersoever he be moved he will carry his malady with him; so one need not care whether the diseased mind is bestowed upon riches or upon poverty. His malady goes with the man. Farewell,
Seneca.
#40. You know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.
William Joyce
#41. Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin
Catherine Merridale
#42. What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?
Matthew B. Crawford
#43. By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
Aberjhani
#45. Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.
Dennis Prager
#46. No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.
Katharine O'Shea
#47. The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D.H. Lawrence
#48. One need not be merry to be useful. One does, however, need to be alive.
S.A. Bolich
#49. To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
Joseph Joubert
#51. There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.
Ngaio Marsh
#52. It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#54. Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#55. God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.
Marvin J. Ashton
#56. It was the present moment. No one need wonder that Orlando started, pressed her hand to her heart, and turned pale. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?
Virginia Woolf
#57. If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold
#58. One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified.
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.
Tim McDonald
#60. No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#61. If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.
Freda Adler
#62. One need only admit the premise that public peace of mind is in danger and any action finds justification. All the horrors of the Reign of Terror in France were based entirely on solicitude for public tranquillity.
Leo Tolstoy
#63. I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.
Graham Greene
#64. We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.
Peggy Haymes
#65. Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurier
#66. How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Georg Buchner
#67. No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.
Dallas Willard
#68. Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly.
It was Harry's turn to laugh.
"Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?
J.K. Rowling
#69. His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid.
Payne Best
#70. When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
Albert Einstein
#71. To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#72. Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
Pope Benedict XVI
#73. One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ...
Henry James
#74. Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that
one need merely look out of the window, for example.
Donald Barthelme
#75. No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson
#76. Faith does not cease being active as it undertakes the process of rigorous thinking. One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver
Thomas C. Oden
#77. I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Oscar Wilde
#78. One need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.
Nirmala Srivastava
#79. One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All
Leo Tolstoy
#80. I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
Ingmar Bergman
#81. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway ... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank
#82. I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.
Leslie Cannold
#83. Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
John Cage
#84. Your mortal attachments are like a puppet's strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!
Rachel Vincent
#85. No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.
Carl Jung
#87. Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#88. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
Bruce Lee
#89. I'm intrigued. If not by beauty, how then does one spot the garden-variety nobleman?"
"Easily," she said. "One need only look for the promise of beauty not quite fulfilled, a nose too large, eyes a bit too closer together, or ears ready to set sail.
Kristen Callihan
#90. When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#91. Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all?
Walker Percy
#92. It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
Thomas De Quincey
#93. Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#94. What more does one need than what is offered by the present moment? Once you have learnt how to dissolve in the present moment, and you are able to enjoy it, you will have no problem in disregarding the empty chit-chat of the Ego, the mind!
Frank M. Wanderer
#95. One need not be a saint, or even a mother, to become a bearer of God. One needs only to obey. The divine resides in all of us, but it is our choice to magnify it or diminish it, to ignore it or to surrender to its lead.
Rachel Held Evans
#96. What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.
Rebecca Solnit
#97. One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.
Richard Paul Evans
#98. One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
Stephen King
#99. I may have one need that you could fulfill if you'd like ... he said.
Emma Nichols
#100. One need not fear for the future of music.
John Cage
