Top 100 Quotes About Pure
#1. The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
Radhanath Swami
#3. I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#4. We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero.
Thomas Pynchon
#5. It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.
Epicurus
#6. How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?
Nancy Farmer
#7. Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
William Wordsworth
#8. So it's okay to kill if your intentions are pure?" "Hasn't that always been the case?" Eliot takes a swig of his beer and flops back on the sofa. "Revenge. Capital punishment. Euthanasia. War.
Judd Trichter
#9. Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#10. Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
#11. In this regard, the pure Ego or pure Self is virtually identical with what the Hindus call Atman (or the pure Witness that itself is never witnessed - is never an object - but contains all objects in itself).
Ken Wilber
#12. ...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.
Teresa Mummert
#13. Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day ... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.
Mother Teresa
#15. God's gifts are free because His love is pure. - Jenni Davenport
Gary Chapman
#16. In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.
George Vecsey
#17. We always protect our heads, our faces,' he commented as he followed a half-step behind and to her left. It's pure instinct; to shield the eyes. The irony is that the blind have no eyes to protect, and suffer most of their injuries on their legs. But instinct can be blind, too.
Melinda Cross
#18. Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.
Lu Yen-hsun
#19. Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.
Dejan Stojanovic
#20. The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.
John Frusciante
#21. See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
Henry Ward Beecher
#22. We can't sit around discussing pure evil without tea and biscuits, Iz. It's just not done.
G.A. Aiken
#23. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.
Tom Felton
#24. Our Higher Self is perfect, Omniscient and Almighty. A fragment of God himself. A pure, transparent, luminous, Quintessence.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
#25. In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
Paul Valery
#26. Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.
Paula Hawkins
#27. When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.
Tom Jenkinson
#29. Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.
Stephen King
#30. If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.
Leonard Jacobson
#31. Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
Kara Walker
#32. We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.
Frederick Lenz
#33. There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
#34. Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey
#35. There are some people you just dislike, without even knowing why. You take one look at them and you just don't like them. It's not that they ever did anything to you, it's just spontaneous antipathy, pure and simple.
Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
#36. Jody screamed at him: a high, explosive, unintelligible expulsion of pure inhuman frustration
a Hendrix high note sampled and sung by a billion suffering souls in Hell's own choir.
Christopher Moore
#37. The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
Jean Baudrillard
#38. Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Sophie Swetchine
#39. When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.
Sri Chinmoy
#40. They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.
John Szarkowski
#41. Some things went beyond a single man's life, and maybe justice existed outside the minds of humanity, beyond even the hungry eyes of gods and goddesses, a thing shining and pure and final.
Steven Erikson
#42. The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.
Billy Graham
#43. There is nowhere in the world I'd rather be than buried deep within her. All of her. Her body. Her heart. Her soul. She is the good I seek. She is the pure I long to be. She is worth everything I will give up to be with her.
Rebecca Shea
#44. At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.
Amy Weber
#45. Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.
Pope Benedict XVI
#46. The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Iris Murdoch
#47. There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.
Jean Liedloff
#50. As long as your mind has the contemplation 'the tiger is a violent animal', it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, 'the tiger is a pure soul', then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#52. Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .
Paul Tillich
#53. I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst
#55. I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
George Eliot
#56. It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.
Isadore Singer
#57. Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him;
Mikhail Bakhtin
#58. In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. 'Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the 'Gnani's' grace.
Dada Bhagwan
#59. That, even with imperfect masters, the canine soul is pure, loyal, and dependable.
Jon Katz
#60. The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.
Herbert Hoover
#61. We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.
Dave Eggers
#63. We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
David Gelernter
#64. Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H.L. Mencken
#65. May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still consider her as my Friend and my disciple? Surely her love is as pure as She describes. Had it been the offspring of mere licentiousness, would She so long have concealed it in her own bosom?
Matthew Lewis
#66. We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.
Martin Luther
#67. Sometimes writing is pure hell. I'll write something and look at it in a few hours and say, "This is crap. What will I do with my life? I'll never write again." It's a bipolar business, and you bounce back. You become gripped with some new insight that shows the way.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#68. Perhaps she had not understood the heights to which prayer must rise before it becomes pure praise, the fortitude that is demanded before it can share in the redemption of man's soul. The man of prayer beside her had said it was action, the greatest activity there is. She began to believe him.
Elizabeth Goudge
#69. He glanced up. His eyes were pure white. Great, his brights were on, but nobody was driving.
Ilona Andrews
#70. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
Joshua Chamberlain
#71. I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. ...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could.
Meg Wolitzer
#73. I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.
Dan Simmons
#74. Pure love' means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers; it is 'Pure Love'. 'Pure love' is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#75. The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.
Max Frisch
#76. Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
... beer is good enough for me.
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
#77. It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.
Gabriel Marcel
#78. It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology - we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question.
Ayn Rand
#79. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
Gautama Buddha
#80. Your Karma is defined by your Actions plus your Intent. A seemingly incorrect action with a pure intent can potentially result in good Karma
Manoj Arora
#81. He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
Idries Shah
#83. Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.
Stephan Pastis
#84. Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.
Asa Don Brown
#85. Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#86. I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#87. Compressing her lips together, she gave Mark a baleful glance, eyes flashing pure malice. If he wanted his lips anywhere near hers he'd better be prepared to do battle.
'Now that's what I'm talking about,' said Mark, as the corner of his lip began to twitch in amusement.
C.P. Mandara
#89. Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?
Julia Child
#90. Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree
India.Arie
#91. When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.
Bill Phillips
#92. Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.
Alison Thompson
#93. Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!
Robert Burns
#94. Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is bright like the moon, pure, serene, undisturbed, and in whom all gaiety is extinct.
Various
#96. "Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.
Benjamin Hart
#97. To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.
Emanuel Geibel
#98. At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in! They got in on pure talent!
J.K. Rowling
#99. A full pure heart with empty pocket is much better than full pocket of money with no heart
Russ
