Disconcerting Quote by Evelyn Underhill

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the…

— Evelyn Underhill

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

— C. S. Lewis

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience…

— Edgar Mitchell

More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet,…

— Nitin Sawhney

There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing…

— Andrew Weil

I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young…

— Kevin Benderman

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to…

— Edgar Mitchell

Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has,…

— Evelyn Underhill

The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed…

— Evelyn Underhill

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand…

— Elizabeth George

“The intimacy was disconcerting, right and wrong at the same time, comforting and terrifying, exhilarating and guilt-inducing.”

— Jasinda Wilder

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

— Anonymous

It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'

— Diana Taylor

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into…

— Sherwood Smith