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" The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. "

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" I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly. "

" Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. "

Orison Swett Marden

" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone. "

" Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. "

" It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone. "

George Matthew Adams

" I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. "

" The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. "

" If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. "

Richard Lovelace

" We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information. "

" There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times. "

" I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. "

" I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone. "

" The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light. "

" Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. "

Shannen Doherty

" Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. "

" Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. "

" I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else. "

Richard Jenkins

" It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone. "

Cristiano Ronaldo

" Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. "

" A hospital alone shows what war is. "

Erich Maria Remarque

" Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. "

" The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting. "

Monica Bellucci

" In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. "

Laurence Sterne

" Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. "

" Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. "

" From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying. "