For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them. — George Muller Copy Share Image
Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image