Multitudes Quotes - Page 5

• I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Battle, Different

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Human Nature

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• All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

  Stephen Charnock

  Prayer, Together, Scripture

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.529

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• A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Generosity, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.95

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• The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

  Kurt Lewin

  Science, Acceptance, Ideas

  Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper

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• I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.

  Gardner Dickinson

  Sweet, Golf, Charity

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• O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Sadness, Passion

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• He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

  Joseph Addison

  Independent, Greatness, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.227

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• When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

  Confucius

  Hate, Men, Inquiry

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

  Andre Gide

  Littles, Triumph, Belief

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.34, Routledge

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• Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

  Harry Browne

  Association, Possibility, Produce

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• As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Funny Sarcastic, Priorities, Alcohol

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• If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Mean, Appreciate

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.573, Random House

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• Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

  Aldous Huxley

  Architecture, Sin, Perceive

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Flaws, Never Trust, Surface

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Masquerade: Number 2 in series”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Appreciation, Thinking

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Two, Soul, Tragedy

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• Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Luxury, Giving, Example

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• I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify and then fight the necessary fights from the best possible mind-state: calm, loving, affectionate, precise. Not pushovers but also not zealots. With the idea in mind that "our enemies" are not our enemies; they might seem like that in their present form but that form can morph. We really are large, and really do contain multitudes. But I think it all has to start with a kindly presence of mind, and the aspiration to affection for others.

  George Saunders

  Fighting, Thinking, Presence Of Mind

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.

  Thomas Bradwardine

  Fighting, Hands, Grace

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.

  Robert Guiscard

  War, Faithful, Overcoming

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• Success covers a multitude of blunders.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

  David Hume

  Truth, Honesty, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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