Brevity Quote by Blaise Pascal

Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall…

— John Locke

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or untraviolet light,…

— Starhawk

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen…

— Anonymous

Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant…

— Alister E. McGrath

A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.

— Rumi

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

— John Rawls

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that…

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

— Naveen Jain

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

— John Dryden

For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it…

— Robert Hooke