Innumerable Quotes
186 quotes by 158 authors
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
— Joseph Addison
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
— Theodor Adorno
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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict…
— Max Born
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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
— John Milton
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest…
— Torii Mototada
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
— William James
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
— Henri Poincare
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
— John Arbuthnot
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I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major…
— H. Bentley Glass
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The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human…
— Meher Baba
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to…
— Roderick Murchison
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
— Samuel Johnson
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