The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases...
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up onl...
He who only thinks about what is in his belly is worth less than what comes out of it.
If you wish to know what most occupies a man's thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation.
When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other.
Only when you have crossed the river, can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout.
You don't kill a gypsy by cutting him in ten pieces -- you only make ten more gypsies.
He who admits to his ignorance shows it once only; he who tries to hide it shows it frequently.
You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.
The one-eyed man thanks God only when he sees a man blind in both eyes.
He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.
Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is dee...
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort,...
The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels a...
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only. This bother...
You can mirror something from other people; you can only give out that which is your own.
I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.
Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
