Omniscient Quotes

• God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

  Little Richard

  Omnipotent

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• Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

  Robert Frost

  Boys, Men, Imagination

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• Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Names, Stupidity

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• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  Andrew Vachss

  Running, Narrators, Tape

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• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

  Ernest Mandel

  Leader, Groups, Revolution

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

  Richard Dawkins

  Omnipotence, Mind, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Forever, Experts

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• Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

  David Hayden

  Tolerance, Moral, Invisible

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• And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.

  Isaac Newton

  God, Powerful, Intelligent

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Giving, Needs

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• I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Government Spying, Way

  "Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks". Interview with Barton Gellman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.

  Mary Somerville

  Math, Men, Unity

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Hate, Writing

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• And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really tend to make Men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would have given Men so many Invitations, and almost Necessities, to study and contemplate the Nature of his Creatures: Of these Invitations divers have been mention'd already, and more might be added to them, if we thought it requisite.

  Robert Boyle

  God, Science, Men

  "Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy".

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• Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

  J. I. Packer

  Sight, Realizing, Moments

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.88, InterVarsity Press

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• God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Mind, Religion

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Men, Long

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• Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

  Fred Brooks

  Firsts, Planning, Programming

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Brother, Animal

  "Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India".

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• If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

  Penn Jillette

  Mother, Suffering, Imagine

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

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• Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Birthday, Years, Bully

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• Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. 'Go back to bed', because I love you. 'Go back to bed', beacause the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Love You, Voice

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• ...You're omniscient, right?" "For the most part, yes." "Then you have to tell me this ‘cause I have to know. What's at the end of everything?" He shrugged. "That's easy enough." "Then tell me." "The letter G.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letters, Causes, Easy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.6888, Macmillan

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• If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

  Carl Sagan

  Biblical, Design, Competition

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mephistopheles, Knows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1998). “Faust”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA

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