May Quotes - Page 158

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

Ever since I was old enough to remember my own actions, I realized that when I am passionate about something, I must do it 130%, regardless of what other passions I may already be pursuing.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.