Penetrate Quotes
240 quotes by 209 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.
— Peter Wilson
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We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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