Vain Quotes
986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors
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It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to…
— Unknown Author
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
— Epicurus
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
— Charles Fenno Hoffman
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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in…
— James Hutton
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In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and…
— Auguste Comte
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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power…
— Unknown Author
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But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in…
— Unknown Author
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain…
— Leon Foucault
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A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e…
— Robert Burns
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
— David Hume
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
— Thomas Nagel
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I…
— John Henry Newman
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
— Tycho Brahe
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
— William Butler Yeats
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
— Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful…
— Hasan of Basra
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart…
— Washington Irving
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