Veils Quotes

342 quotes by 278 authors

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. — Honore de Balzac
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know… — Geraldine Brooks
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. — Lord Chesterfield
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Hayim Nahman Bialik
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This… — Swami Vivekananda
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail… — Matthieu Ricard
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to… — Albert Schweitzer
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful… — Jon Hamm
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to… — Maria Montessori
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not… — Francis Pharcellus Church
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the… — David Hume
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. — Italo Svevo

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