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Persist Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we…
- In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility…
- First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and…
More Persist Quotes
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
- Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler
- The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake
- If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus
- There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
- Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. — Lord Chesterfield
- Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly