Welcome to Form Quotes, a curated collection of insightful and inspiring quotes on the theme of form. Form, in its myriad manifestations, embodies structure, shape, and arrangement, shaping the world around us in tangible and intangible ways. From the graceful curves of nature to the precise lines of human design, form holds a profound significance in how we perceive and interact with our surroundings.
Throughout history, philosophers, artists, architects, and thinkers of all stripes have contemplated the essence of form, probing its essence and exploring its implications. Whether discussing the form of a physical object, the structure of a piece of writing, or the shape of an idea, these quotes offer profound insights into the nature of form and its role in our lives. Here, you’ll find wisdom, wit, and perspective encapsulated in succinct phrases that capture the essence of form from diverse perspectives. Explore these quotes, ponder their meanings, and perhaps find inspiration for your own creative endeavors.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. Og Mandino
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man. Peter Porter
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. Jose Saramago
To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. Maya Angelou
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege. Abraham Maslow
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. Gretchen Rubin
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. Wayne Dyer
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love. Eckhart Tolle
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men. B. R. Ambedkar
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who’s connected with it, the studio’s gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that’s left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. Tom Waits
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln
Inaction may be the biggest form of action. Jerry Brown
Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. Kurt Cobain
I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed. Pierce Brosnan
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. Horatio Nelson
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something. Amanda Gorman
Speaking truth to power is actually a form of loyalty. Richard N. Haass
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce Brothers
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. Charlie Chaplin
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person’s day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. Eddie Vedder
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate. Saint Ambrose
I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just – I crave it. Gabriel Iglesias
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I’m just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. Slash
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions. William Shatner
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? Lewis Carroll
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization. Tony Hawk
I’m not violent, I don’t believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance. Eva Gabrielsson
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture. Denis Villeneuve
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move. Ossie Davis
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. Douglas Horton
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. E. B. White
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. Aeschylus
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. Tim Burton
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards
Competition is the best form of motivation. Cordae
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. Peter Jackson
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings. Ellen DeGeneres
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Milton Friedman
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. Alan Cohen
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. Andrew Jackson
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – they’ll take you away, man. You can’t. Lenny Bruce
We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. Sandra Day O’Connor
I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive. Yolanda Hadid
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it… The effect that it has had on people’s minds. Chino Moreno
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. Louise Bourgeois
Form follows function. Louis Sullivan
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it’s gone. Simon McBurney
Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest. J. Jayalalithaa
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge
Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I’ve always had a great interest in religion, but I’ve never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine. Suleika Jaouad
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. John Oliver
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. Thich Nhat Hanh
Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation, even a small word, is important. Vikrant Massey
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. J. P. Morgan
Hate is only a form love that hasn’t found a way to express itself logically. Lil Wayne
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Billy Graham
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Ronald Reagan
A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart. Buddha
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. James Monroe
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. Gordon Ramsay
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development. W. E. B. Du Bois
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. John Muir
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Howard Zinn
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton
Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying. Kanye West
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Friedrich Schiller
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. Tecumseh
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say. Florence Nightingale
Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together. Marianne Williamson
