Multitudes Quotes

403 quotes by 329 authors

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as… — Stephen Charnock
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was… — Max Nordau
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in… — Samuel Johnson
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads… — Victor Hugo
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from… — Saint John Chrysostom
Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we… — Saint Basil
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We… — Ernest K. Gann
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Robert Frenay
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion.Â All the neglect and bad education… — Charles Loring Brace
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the… — Robert Higgs
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. — Edmund Burke
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place… — Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong — Tryon Edwards
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal… — Johannes Gutenberg
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which… — Johannes Gutenberg
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. — Li-Young Lee

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