Divine Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Divine Incredulity Knowledge Lost
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them;… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature. — Paul V. Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands. — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like… — Plutarch Copy Share
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again,… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image