Ocean Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ocean Progress Rivers
Then as it was, then again it will be, and though the course will change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. — Barten Holyday Copy Share Image
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Man cant discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
Life is like the ocean. It can be calm and still or rough and rigid but in the end, it is always beautiful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
