Incredulity Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incredulity Incredulity Robs Pleasures Pleasures Gives Return Robs Pleasures
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them. Anything that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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