Inaccessible Quotes
86 quotes by 77 authors
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you…
— William Shakespeare
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While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s…
— Lawrence Lessig
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A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even…
— Henri Poincare
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is…
— Paracelsus
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It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me…
— Alan Dean Foster
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Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
— Ellen Glasgow
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
— George Leigh Mallory
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Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
— Curt Sachs
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
— Desmond Tutu
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out…
— Michel de Montaigne
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O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God but He (cf.…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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