Dimly Quotes
74 Dimly quotes by 65 unique authors
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God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one…
— Robert Greene
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
— James Ramsey Ullman
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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It…
— Ernst Mach
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We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time…
— Joko Beck
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A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.
— Randy Travis
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We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
— Samuel Johnson
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Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how…
— Terry Pratchett
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It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere…
— Richard Bach
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People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words…
— Theodore Dreiser
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different…
— Albert Einstein
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
— Bertrand Russell
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I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the…
— Emily Bronte
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly -…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that…
— Diana Gabaldon
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People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer…
— Hermann Hesse
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The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark…
— Susan Cooper
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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny…
— Mark Twain
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To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each…
— Algernon Blackwood
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More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There…
— Cinda Williams Chima
Who Wrote These Dimly Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 74 Dimly Quotes, led by these top contributors: