Wander Quotes - Page 13

• The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

  George Eliot

  Lawlessness, Revolution, Rebellion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.

  Loren Eiseley

  Moving, Future, Science

  14 Copy quote

• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Mother, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
  Into regions yet untrod
  And read what is still unread
  In the manuscripts of God.

  Willis R. Whitney

  God, Science, Age

  4 Copy quote

• After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  7 Copy quote

• The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of Europe and Asia-regions new to Science-in the hope, happily realized, of winning new truths.
  By a rare union of favourable circumstances, and of personal qualifications equally rare, you have thus been enabled to become the recognized Interpreter and Historian (not without illustrious aid) of the Silurian Period.

  John Jeremiah Bigsby

  Life, Science, Winning

  John Jeremiah Bigsby (1868). “Thesaurus Siluricus: The Flora and Fauna of the Silurian Period, with Addenda (from Recent Acquisitions)”, p.3

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.

  Julian Huxley

  Wall, Science, Keys

  5 Copy quote

• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

  Francis Bacon

  Math, Men, Littles

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

  Karl Marx

  Giving, Atheism, Facts

  7 Copy quote

• Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Vanity, Blood

  6 Copy quote

• Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Thinking, Heaven

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Land, Astrology, Worry

  96 Copy quote

• I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

  Amy Yasbeck

  Girl, Sarcastic, Heart

  45 Copy quote

• The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Interesting, Library

  15 Copy quote

• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  Violette Leduc

  Summer, Journey, Fire

  11 Copy quote

• From the great trees the locusts cry
  In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
  Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
  In the blue distance sobs-the wind
  Wanders by, heavy with odors
  Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
  The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
  Greets them, one by one-now the oak
  Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  Hamlin Garland

  Summer, Distance, Boys

  Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Rain, Yellow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 08, 2015

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Sunset, Journey, Garden

  20 Copy quote

• I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

  Charles Lane Poor

  Reading, Science, Mad

  4 Copy quote

• If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

  Robert Koch

  Inspirational, Success, Lying

  136 Copy quote

• How peacefully he sleep!
  Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length
  from all the frettings of this little world,
  Wander at will among the uncharted stars.
  Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields
  disclosing long sought secrets of the past
  Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze
  And beasts and men that to his earthly sight
  were merely bits of stone shall live again to
  gladden those eager eyes.
  o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend-
  Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!

  Charles R. Knight

  Life, Stars, Sleep

  4 Copy quote

• Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Self Confidence, Science, Imagination

  Antoine Lavoisier (2011). “Elements of Chemistry”, Courier Corporation

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

  William Stafford

  Spiritual, Journey, People

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.20, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Grace

  15 Copy quote