What's a reputation for, if not for proceeding oneself?

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society…

— Ram Dass

In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding…

— John Steinbeck

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any…

— Bayley

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

— Blaise Pascal

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

— Dale Rex Coman

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory…

— David Stove

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

— John F. Kennedy

This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I…

— Anne Royall

People lie all the time in their divorce proceedings, especially when custody is an issue.

— Megyn Kelly