Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

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"Patience is necessary for the slow work of building consciousness and solidarity."
Lucien Goldmann
"Patience with historical processes must not become passive acceptance of injustice."
Georg Lukács
"Patience is not passivity but the art of waiting with full awareness and readiness for the moment of transformation."
Walter Benjamin
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"Patience with injustice is a form of collaboration with oppression."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
Martin Heidegger
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"Patience in the face of injustice becomes a form of collaboration."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Patience is the virtue of those who seek truth."
Martin Heidegger
"The world reveals itself only to those patient enough to observe without judgment."
Edmund Husserl
"Patience is required to understand the slow accumulation of historical forces."
Georg Lukács
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"Patience is required to achieve anything worthwhile."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Thinking is a gift that requires patience."
Martin Heidegger
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"Patience is the virtue of waiting without despair."
Martin Heidegger
"Patience is the art of waiting without losing hope."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The essence of a thing reveals itself only to patient, sustained contemplation."
Edmund Husserl
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"Patience is not passivity."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Patience teaches what haste destroys."
Paul Feyerabend
"Patience in the face of injustice can become a form of cowardice if it prevents necessary resistance."
Georg Lukács
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"Patience is the virtue that saves the world."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Patience is a virtue often undervalued."
Karl Popper
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand complexity."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Patience is required for lasting change."
Noam Chomsky
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"Patience with others begins with patience with ourselves."
Noam Chomsky
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"Patience is the capacity to accept what cannot be changed with grace."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Patience with ideas that challenge us leads to deeper understanding."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand that great things take time to achieve."
Karl Popper
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"Patience is the virtue of understanding that all things take time."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Patience and perseverance are the twin virtues of success."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Patience in research reveals what haste obscures."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Patience reveals details that haste mistakes for irrelevance."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Our knowledge of the future is so slight that the only rational policy is to act with prudence."
John Maynard Keynes