Chasms Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

— Anonymous

What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone…

— Michael Shermer

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their…

— Louise Penny

“The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to…

— Nelson Mandela

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

— Patricia J. Williams

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be…

— Charles Brent

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

— David Lloyd George

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and…

— Mao Zedong

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of…

— Samuel Johnson

My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense…

— Eben Alexander

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some…

— Anonymous