Unerring Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
— Honore de Balzac
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Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
— William Wordsworth
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention…
— Gail Caldwell
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Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right…
— Angelina Grimke
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Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like…
— Art Linkletter
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In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference…
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring…
— Epictetus
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In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for…
— Steven Pinker
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History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud…
— Arthur Koestler
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What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty…
— Susanna Moodie
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Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have,…
— Dave Barry
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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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I operate according to a definite, unerring law...I know the outcome before I start.
— Roger McDonald
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left…
— Matthew Arnold
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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
— John Locke
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how…
— Yann Martel
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And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Unerring Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Unerring Quotes as follows: