Quotes of: True-meaning Keyword

Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind.

Russian

When a merchant talks about sheep he means the hide.

Swiss

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Happiness and Contemplation

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Jerome Bruner

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Selected Essays

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it. (attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)

Orijjjjjjice

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Philosophy Made Simple

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

Spiritual Simplicity: How Loving More Means Doing Less

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Mason Cooley

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Philip Appleman

Just because we can doesn't mean we should and just because we should doesn't mean we can.

The Prolific Penman

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

Kim Wright

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Linda Tripp

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

Moliere

What does introspection mean? It means you're looking in the wrong direction.

Marty Rubin

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

Natasha Bedingfield

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

The Keeper of Sheep

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.

Matt Mickiewicz