Present State Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist,… — Roger Williams
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation… — Humphry Davy
I do not like Melbourne in its present state. — William John Wills
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I… — John Nelson Darby
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would… — Harold Jeffreys
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with… — Gottfried Leibniz
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory. — Arthur Eddington
There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do… — Mahatma Gandhi
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways… — Steven Johnson
Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing… — Samuel Johnson
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. — Carl Jung
That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and… — Eugene H. Peterson
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There… — Andrzej Wajda
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is… — Shunryu Suzuki
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata… — Georges Cuvier
... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to… — George Washington
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a… — Niels Bohr
When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but… — Christian D. Larson
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons. — Juvenal

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