Whom Quotes
3859 Whom quotes by 2236 unique authors
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The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery…
— Louis Agassiz
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give…
— Robert Frost
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
— Samuel Johnson
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said…
— John Bunyan
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Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
— John F. Kennedy
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Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think…
— Stephen Hawking
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
— Baruch Spinoza
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
— C.S. Lewis
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
— Blaise Pascal
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Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the…
— Andy Rooney
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To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws,…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will…
— Herman Melville
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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how -…
— Pema Chodron
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You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is…
— Rajneesh
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The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine…
— Origen
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that…
— Dalai Lama
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