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British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942–2018Related quotes
“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us…”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher
Graeme Leung Fijian lawyer
24 May 2005 letter to Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase
“To the quiet mind all things are possible.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
As translated in A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985) by Patrick Grant
Context: The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Voi dunque, se cercate aver la mente
anzi l'extremo dí queta già mai,
seguite i pochi, et non la volgar gente.
Canzone 99, st. 3
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in My Brother Adlai (1956) by Elizabeth Stevenson Ives and Hildegarde Dolson
Regina E. Dugan (1963) American businesswoman, inventor, and technology developer
As quoted in "The CNN 10 : Thinkers" (2013)
“You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
2nd Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (12 May 1968)
1960s
