Penetrating Quotes

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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,… — Leo Tolstoy
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. — Aldous Huxley
The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies. — Morihei Ueshiba
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous… — Edwin Land
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further… — Richard Goldschmidt
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides… — Louis Agassiz
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay… — Sun Tzu
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow… — Aldous Huxley
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? — Igor Stravinsky
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing… — Os Guinness
In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the… — Paulo Coelho
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. — Vera Brittain
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and… — J. G. Farrell
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method… — Victor Francis Hess

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