Top Thwarted Quotes
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Charles Horton Cooley
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Jerome Bruner
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal 
58% of people like this quote
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Charles Horton Cooley
53% of people like this quote
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse
50% of people like this quote
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Jerome Bruner
49% of people like this quote
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay
45% of people like this quote
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
Janet Reno
44% of people like this quote
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Meister Eckhart
43% of people like this quote