Top 100 That Which Quotes
#1. Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
Anais Nin
#2. The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.
Aristotle.
#4. You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
Oprah Winfrey
#6. We have always goodly stock in us of that which we condemn: as only similars can be profitably contrasted, so only similar people quarrel, and the bitterest wars are over the slightest variations of purpose or belief.
Will Durant
#7. Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
Og Mandino
#8. That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.
Matthew Arnold
#9. Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#10. If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?
Isaac Asimov
#12. Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#13. Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson
#14. That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price
dreadful tendencies!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.
Annie Besant
#16. No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
Elijah Muhammad
#17. That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.
Phil Cousineau
#18. And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More
#19. The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
#20. But to "bring something to light" is not to question its existence, but merely to decide whether or not something should be permitted within the realm of the real, the realm of the ruler (of that which is measurable), or to leave it outside the realm, in the "outer darkness.
Simon
#21. No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.
Seneca.
#22. The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form ...
Maimonides
#23. Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
Mark Buchanan
#24. O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#26. Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.
John Scott
#27. Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.
Richard Sibbes
#28. I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
Paul Auster
#30. Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being.
Richard Dawkins
#31. There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Abu Bakr
#33. Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. Freedom ... is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.
Kelli Wilson
#35. Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?
Doc Holliday
#36. God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
#37. Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.
Vivian Amis
#38. Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.
Paul Washer
#39. We cannot say this or that trouble will not befall, yet we may, by the help of the Spirit, say, Nothing that does befall will make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.
Richard Sibbes
#40. All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.
Dov Davidoff
#41. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void. People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is confusion.
Miyamoto Musashi
#42. We forgive only that which requires forgiveness. To do otherwise is wasteful of grace.
Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred
Jordan MacLean
#43. Let's also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute and unique potential of the human future.
Edward O. Wilson
#44. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca.
#45. Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#46. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself, cannot be realized by you. The promise is
Neville Goddard
#47. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
Jaimal Yogis
#49. By putting my trust in God and my love in the alchemical transmutation, which working on my dreams leads me to, I was able to attract ideas, and those ideas inspired me to create something new. That which I created was a product, with value.
Daniel Marques
#50. There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.
Jennifer James
#51. A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.
Mark Kac
#52. Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#53. But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.
John Green
#54. Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben Jonson
#55. Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it
Malik Ibn Anas
#56. It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds ... that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.
Hilaire Belloc
#57. There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.
Richard Paul Evans
#58. Praise God for that which draws you to pray.
Amy E. Tobin
#59. It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.
Don Ellis
#60. Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.
Goliarda Sapienza
#61. In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight
Augustus Hopkins Strong
#62. Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
Francois Fenelon
#63. Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Publilius Syrus
#64. I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds ... But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.
Richard Aldington
#65. She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
Jean M. Auel
#66. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
James Russell Lowell
#67. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
Steve Aoki
#68. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
Alexander Hamilton
#69. Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#71. There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness.
We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#72. Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
Immanuel Kant
#73. That which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.
Richard Sibbes
#74. In her misery she read a great deal, and discovered that she had lost something she had previously not really know she had: a soul.
What's that? It is easy to define negatively: it is simply that which sneaks off at the mention of algebraic series.
Robert Musil
#75. Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
Theodor W. Adorno
#76. [T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.
Joanna Russ
#77. Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
George MacDonald
#78. I am not now
That which I have been.
Lord Byron
#79. That which does not kill us, very often kills someone else.
Vicky Loebel
#80. Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.
Kresley Cole
#81. Tis safter to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
William Shakespeare
#82. The purpose of the voice of condemnation is to push you away from His presence -- that which is the very source of your victory. The purpose of the voice of conviction is to press you into the face of Christ." ~Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place.
Lori Hatcher
#83. That which is, is. If you accept it you have joy arising in you, if you reject it you have pain, but the reality remains the same.
Osho
#84. Evidence of true faith is the determination to trust God when that which He allows makes no sense--and is utterly disagreeable.
David P. Ingerson
#85. It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.
Michael Haneke
#86. Each one had marked, as it were, the inauguration of a new phase in her life. She did not believe that things could present themselves in the same way in different places, and since the portion of her life lived had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.
Anonymous
#87. That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#88. There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
Ayn Rand
#89. When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust ... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad ...
Abdul Kalam
#90. Be thou as a throbbing artery, pulsating in the body of the entire creation, that through the heat generated by this motion there may appear that which will quicken the hearts of those who hesitate.
Baha'u'llah
#91. Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
John Henry Newman
#92. What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
Ambrose
#93. True wisdom
is not borrowed knowledge
it must be based
on my own experience.
That which I learn from others
is memory, not wisdom
Beopjeong
#94. Truth never changes; it is the same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; but our relations towards truth may change, for that which is hidden from us today may become known to us tomorrow.
James Gibbons
#95. The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#96. Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
Esaias Tegner
#97. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
#99. That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
King James I
#100. He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
Horace
