Utmost Quotes
340 quotes by 291 authors
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The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ…
— John Owen
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and…
— Samuel Rutherford
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by…
— Franz Kafka
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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.…
— Samuel Adams
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
— Albert Einstein
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
— Samuel Adams
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the…
— Sun Tzu
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All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his…
— Charles Dickens
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Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal…
— Ed Macauley
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if…
— Laozi
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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for…
— Hilaire Belloc
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and…
— Benito Mussolini
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