Innumerable Quotes
186 quotes by 158 authors
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with…
— Jean Dubuffet
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The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. .…
— William Henry Pickering
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
— William Godwin
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If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder…
— Meher Baba
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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
— Thomas Sowell
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Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.…
— John Owen
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is…
— Dorothy Day
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Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to…
— C. J. Mahaney
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors,…
— Tony Hoare
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The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is…
— Ivan Pavlov
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This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was…
— ElRay L. Christiansen
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I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who…
— Catherine Ponder
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Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly…
— Robert S. Siegler
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The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.…
— Gordon Allport
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
— Avicenna
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I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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