Shining Quote by Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Download Open image “Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.” — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shining Shock Torches Truth
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. — Pindar Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice;… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
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I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from… — Sara Teasdale 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
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You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth. — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
