Articles Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Article Faith Articles Faith In-laws Law Law Weight Maxim Law Maxims Religion Weight World World Article
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Faith left to itself … exalts itself above the laws of natural morality. … [B]y so much higher are duties to God than duties… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“There is no organized faith or denomination which has any kind of monopoly on truth. Ultimate truth does not reside in the minds or… — Steve Daily Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law. — William H. Pryor Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image