Verities Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its… — Louis Kronenberger
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and… — Robert Adams
And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but… — William Shatner
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie… — Kalidasa
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is… — Patrick Kavanagh
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the… — Reinhold Niebuhr
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. — Margaret Mahy
I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix… — Mary Gaitskill
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for… — Leslie Jamison
Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and… — Peace Pilgrim
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in… — Walter Lippmann
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. — Horace Mann
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart — Blaise Pascal
Look to this day. In it lies all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of… — Sanskrit Proverb

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