Confined Quotes
310 quotes by 278 authors
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those…
— Mary Astell
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very…
— Joseph Addison
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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
— Joe Biden
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country.…
— H. Rap Brown
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
— Thomas Carlyle
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the…
— Chanakya
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Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.
— Aberjhani
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net…
— Hsu Yun
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of…
— David Ramsey
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment…
— Jacques Ellul
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
— Hugh Mackay
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they…
— William Hazlitt
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or…
— Margaret Atwood
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
Who Wrote These Confined Quotes
278 authors contributed a total of 310 Confined Quotes, led by these top contributors: