Penetrate Quotes

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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a… — David Brainerd
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are… — Paulo Freire
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our… — Matthieu Ricard
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within… — Louis Agassiz
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… — Charles Sanders Peirce
When someone is dancing madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after meditation, he is creating vibrations around him. They may penetrate into anyone. They… — Rajneesh
The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity. — Peter Wilson
We can only penetrate the rind of the earth. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by… — Meher Baba
We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but… — Paul of the Cross
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing… — Albert Einstein
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge… — Teresa of Avila
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where… — Pope Benedict XVI

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