Divines Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating… — Samuel Adams
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so. — Benjamin Franklin
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,… — Huston Smith
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger — Friedrich Nietzsche
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is… — Auguste Rodin
The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some… — B.F. Skinner
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. — William Butler Yeats
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. — Algernon Sidney

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