Stone Quotes
1677 quotes by 1136 authors
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as…
— R. D. Laing
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
— Lucretius
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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This path belongs to those who are not cold, whose hearts have not become stone, and whose heads have not become so swollen that they…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking…
— Unknown Author
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his…
— Kim Edwards
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Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your…
— Rajneesh
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When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind…
— Sen no Rikyu
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Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
— Sylvia Fraser
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You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
— Claire Bloom
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one…
— Arthur Eddington
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
— John Cotton
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
— Charles Ghigna
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity…
— James Hutton
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