Incompleteness Quotes

42 quotes by 35 authors

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle… — Alfred Adler
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead… — Manohla Dargis
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated… — Eckhart Tolle
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of â€˜adaptation through maladaptationâ€™ which is… — Anthony Storr
The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him. — Oswald Chambers
This incompleteness is all we have. — Charles Bukowski
How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems… — Harold S. Kushner
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment. — Thomas Merton
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Consider incompleteness as a verb. — Anne Carson
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History… — Richard Owen
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. — Edgar Allan Poe
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half… — Edmond de Goncourt
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living… — E. Stanley Jones
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul

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