Refuge Quotes

464 quotes by 355 authors

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Kim Stanley
How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of… — Christopher Hitchens
George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an… — Brian May
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,… — Michio Kaku
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.… — Edward Abbey
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt. — Sandra Day O'Connor
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. — Saint Boniface
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — Fernando Pessoa
Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus… — Lincoln Brewster
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. — Bertrand Russell
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary… — William Gaddis
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its… — Fernando Botero
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met… — Pierre Berton
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. — Quentin Crisp
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the… — Gautama Buddha
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no… — Gautama Buddha
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge… — Gautama Buddha
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self. — Publilius Syrus

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