Top 100 Only Through Quotes
#1. Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#2. An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]
Rajendra K. Pachauri
#3. In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein
#4. However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#5. In the heart, there is no sting greater than watching the struggles of one you love, knowing that only through such strife will that person grow and recognize the potential of his or her existence.
R.A. Salvatore
#7. Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
Saint Augustine
#9. It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.
Julia Quinn
#10. Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#11. Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
Vance Havner
#12. Was it possible to fall for someone you'd met only once and communicated with only through phone, chat, and text? I had sleepless nights wondering, and every time I thought about it, the answer was yes, yes, yes! And I refused to think of it as infatuation.
Claire Betita De Guzman
#13. All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth of falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.
Robert Sheckley
#14. If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses ... only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#15. Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#16. Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.
Samael Aun Weor
#17. Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M. Scott Peck
#18. The primary theological fact about prayer is this: We address a triune God, and our prayers can be heard only through the distinct work of every person in the Godhead.
Timothy J. Keller
#19. Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
Horace Walpole
#21. I'm the way the truth and the life. Only through me you will go to the father.
Ayan Khan
#22. True Genuis often goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Only through the lense of time do we see genuis and how it has affected the world around us.
Joshua Wisenbaker
#23. It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
Susan B. Anthony
#24. American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#25. I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
Diana Vreeland
#26. Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
Tom Peters
#27. God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
Susannah Cahalan
#29. It is only through faith that you will receive the patience, obedience, and humility to be submissive
Sunday Adelaja
#30. No scale to balance, what's in my heart.
No numbers to measure, nor even to chart.
This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds.
For only through time, can it's value be found.
Robert M. Hensel
#31. True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
#32. It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
Joyce Carol Oates
#33. L.P. So your work must fight religion?
J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly.
James Hillman
#34. It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
David Eagleman
#35. We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.
Oscar Arias
#36. It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented
Agona Apell
#38. There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.
Bakunin
#39. Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.
Tennessee Williams
#40. Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.
Daisaku Ikeda
#41. Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals; and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.
Ludwig Von Mises
#43. Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience - a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.
Robert A. Caro
#44. I was a kid. I didn't know about love, that you see someone and whether or not they say much, they make the world suddenly different, a mysterious and more alive place that you can access only through them. And the new, better world falls lifeless and flat when they go away.
Rachel Kushner
#45. For only through assiduous repetition is it possible to redistribute skewed tendencies.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.
Daniel Horan
#47. In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#48. I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can i retain my perspective about life and my own part in it.
Virginia McKenna
#49. I reach and have reached the timeless moment, the pure suspension within time, only through love.
May Sarton
#50. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,
active, and immediate.
Washington Irving
#51. Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
#52. A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.
Rajneesh
#53. All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna C. Brackett
#54. It's only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you bare." Somehow, his black eyes darkened, the venom in his words more deadly than a viper's bite. "Let me degrade you, Katherine.
Dianna Hardy
#55. When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.
John Climacus
#56. Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.
Gao Xingjian
#57. Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence ... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#58. The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
Idries Shah
#59. Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
Daniel Libeskind
#60. It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
Dorothy Day
#61. She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.
Susan Minot
#62. A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Karl Abraham
#63. Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
Walter Lippmann
#64. The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
Karl Radek
#65. Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.
Rajneesh
#66. If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity.
Kate Elliott
#68. The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
Richard M. Nixon
#69. I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the greatest gift one can gain by delving into calculus: It is a whole new way of looking at the world, accessible only through the realm of mathematics.
Jennifer Ouellette
#70. P53-knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless,impatient,continuing,hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.
Paulo Freire
#71. You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
Charles William Eliot
#72. What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#73. Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself.
Pope John Paul II
#74. Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.
Erndell Scott
#75. I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.
David O. McKay
#76. Only through our positive thinking and actions do we become strong. Even the weakest person in the world can become the strongest in their own mind.
David Estes
#77. There vas purpose yet to be fulfilled, and my ultimate destiny could come only through my darkness.
Anita Agers-Brooks
#78. It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
Roger Wicker
#79. I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
Arthur Schopenhauer
#81. Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Ravi Zacharias
#82. Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.
Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
#83. There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#84. Writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.
Steven Taylor Goldsberry
#85. Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp.
William Everson
#86. It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Voltaire
#87. All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.
Andrew Vachss
#88. Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#89. Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
#91. Only through pain you achieve your greatness!
STAR WARS
#92. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Joseph Joubert
#93. Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.
Anthony Doerr
#94. It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
Carlos Castaneda
#95. Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.
Henry Williamson
#96. Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,
Ban Ki-moon
#97. The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
Kim Il-sung
#98. After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie
#99. We are creatures rearranged, for biological existence continues only through the mutual slaughter and ingestion of its various species. I exist solely through membership in this perfectly weird arrangement of beings that flourish by chewing each other up. Obviously,
Alan W. Watts
#100. I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
Sarah Waters
