Jean Toomer Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Jean Toomer:

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#8c4145ad

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#1ed372b7

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#52766c3f

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#af8564dc

People mistake their limitations for high standards.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#901e1909

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#715eb0a0

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#99bc6867

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#a7a7b167

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#e7cf9ae3

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
~Jean Toomer


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jean-toomer-quotes/#9d6d6cf2

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