Best Confined Wisdom
310 Confined quotes by 269 unique authors
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But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
— William Shakespeare
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
— Hugh Prather
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these…
— A. Powell Davies
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and…
— J M W Turner
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I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now…
— George Whitefield
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There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.
— Frederick Lenz
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Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you…
— Ibn Arabi
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My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,…
— William Hazlitt
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Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the…
— Paul Davies
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Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.
— Stephen Hawking
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet…
— Sloane Crosley
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in…
— Richard P. Feynman
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world.…
— King Hussein I
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Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
— Doris Lessing
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from…
— John Milton
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by…
— Toni Morrison
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There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
— Pervez Musharraf
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The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one…
— Elon Musk
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Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through…
— Mike Pence
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'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work…
— Tom Peters
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