Quotes about itself

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

The illusion is time itself.

Rise of Science DenialismThe problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

Time itself comes in drops.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

Experience by itself is not science.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Live in the now and the how will take care of itself.

The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Simplicity within itself is just another complication.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Business is in itself a power.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works