Quotes:Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they
contain the whole truth or the only truth.
View quotes by Charles A DanaIt is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:
1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible
contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
View quotes by Benjamin RushAn empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but
containeth nothing (Centuries of Meditation)
View quotes by Thomas TraherneA true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be
contained in words.
View quotes by Ansel Adams An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it
contains.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic AmielThe face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,
containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
View quotes by James BaldwinEvery legend, moreover,
contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
View quotes by James BaldwinDublin university
contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
View quotes by Samuel BeckettWhen you write down your life, every page should
contain something no one has ever heard about.
View quotes by Elias CanettiReligion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself
contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
View quotes by Paul TillichAll of the books in the world
contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
View quotes by Carl SaganA short saying often
contains much wisdom.
View quotes by SophoclesLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can
contain it.
View quotes by Boris PasternakWhen the strong box
contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
View quotes by PlutarchAt my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill
contained the antidote.
View quotes by Emo PhilipsThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it
contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
View quotes by John Stuart MillEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it
contained.
View quotes by John Stuart MillThe present
contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
View quotes by Henri BergsonAdvertisements
contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
View quotes by Thomas JeffersonHistory books that
contain no lies are extremely dull.
View quotes by Anatole FranceDo I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I
contain multitudes.
View quotes by Walt WhitmanThe telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't
contain a single idea.
View quotes by Mortimer AdlerThe good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book
contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
View quotes by Umberto EcoIt has also
contained come of the very best, most accessible writing for children, by writers who seldom get the acknowledgement they deserve [on Fantasy genre]
View quotes by Terry PratchettThat gloomy outside, like a rusty chest,
contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
View quotes by John Dryden'Passing away' is written on the world and all the world
contains
View quotes by Felicia HemansThe language and concepts
contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
View quotes by Frank ZappaYou
contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.
View quotes by Richard DawkinsA house is no home unless it
contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
View quotes by Margaret FullerBut as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths
contained in these pages.
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