Omitted Quotes

38 Omitted quotes by 36 unique authors

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and… — Teresa of Avila
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an… — Hilary Mantel
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better… — Werner Heisenberg
In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that… — Ernst Mach
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. — William Henry Ashley
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. — EB Farnum
Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice… — Dalai Lama
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. — Henry David Thoreau
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing… — John Calvin
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque… — Thomas Jefferson
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be… — Harry S. Truman
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed. — Leo Buscaglia
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point… — John Edensor Littlewood
I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that… — William Thompson

Who Wrote These Omitted Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 38 Omitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: