Confined Quotes

310 quotes by 278 authors

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
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
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. — Joe Biden
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
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. — Thomas Carlyle
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
Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established. — Aberjhani
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
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
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
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
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
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
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead. — Mark Twain
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
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
The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. — Elizabeth Bowen
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
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

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