Inaccessible Quotes - Page 5

• Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Valleys, Sanctuary, Spirituality

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Light, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Literati”, p.499

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Hiking, Vision

  16 Copy quote

• Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

  Curt Sachs

  Training, Wealth, Overwhelming

  Curt Sachs (2008). “The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West”, p.311, Courier Corporation

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Nature and the Method of Nature”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Powerful, Children

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Astronomy, Certain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was really crazy about guys but I was always like one of the boys. The guys I always fell in love with were completely inaccessible.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Crazy, Boys

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spirit, Influence

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.264

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What e'er you are
  That in this desert inaccessible,
  Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
  Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Desert, Shade

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

  Bocafloja

  Community, Doe, Speech

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.

  Seymour Papert

  People, Sound, Machines

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

  Artur Schnabel

  Masters

  9 Copy quote

• The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.

  Karl Jaspers

  Teacher, Intimate Relationships, Students

  Karl Jaspers (1965). “The idea of the university”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Important, Legends, Fierce

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.

  Michel Leiris

  Writing, Doe, Steel

  Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (1992). “Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Animal, Frozen

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Men, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

  Dean Spade

  Men, People, Risk

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I dream of a Digital India where quality education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Digital India, Quality

  18 Copy quote

• I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Film, Difficult

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Ocean, Mean, Swimming

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• [The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Mercy, Monk

  4 Copy quote